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THE    CROOKED    STICK 


POLLIE'S    PROBATION 


mm. 


THE   CROOKED   STICK 


OR 


FOLLIES    PROBATION 


BY 


ROLF    BOLDREWOOD 

AUTHOR  OF 
'  ROBBERY  UNDER  ARMS,"  '  THE  MINER'S  RIGHT,'  '  NEVERMORE,'  ETC. 


Hoution 

MACMILLAN    AND    CO. 

AND  NEW  YORK. 
1895 

A II  rights  reserved 


ins 


CHAPTER   I 

The  time,  the  close  of  a  lurid  sultry  February 
day,  towards  the  end  of  a  long,  dry  summer 
succeeding  a  rainless  winter,  in  the  arid  region 
of  West  Logan.  A  blood-red  sun  sinking  all 
too  slowly,  yet  angrily,  into  a  crimson  ocean  ; 
suddenly  disappearing,  as  if  in  despotic  de- 
fiance of  all  future  rainfall.  A  fiery  portent 
receding  into  the  inferno  of  a  vast  conflagra- 
tion, was  the  image  chiefly  presented  to  the 
dwellers  in  that  pastoral  desert,  long  heart- 
sick with  hope  deferred. 

The  scene,  a  limitless  stretch  of  plain — its 
wearisome  monotony  feebly  broken  by  belts 
of  timber  or  an  infrequent  pine-ridge.  The 
earth  adust.  A  hopeless,  steel-blue  sky. 
The  atmosphere  stagnated,  breezeless.  The 
forest    tribes    all    dumb.      The    Wannonbah 


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mail-coach  toiling  over  the  furrows  of  a  sand- 
hill, walled  in  by  a  pine  thicket. 

'  Thank  God  !  the  sun  is  down  at  last ; 
wc  niust  si^ht  II viand's  within  the  hour,' 
exclaimed  the  passenger  on  the  box-seat,  a 
tall,  handsome  man,  with  '  formerly  in  the 
army  '  legibly  impressed  on  form  and  ft-ature. 
'  How  glad  I  shall  be  to  see  the  river  ;  and 
what  a  luxury  a  swim  will  be ! ' 

'  Been  as  hot  a  day  as  ever  I  know'd, 
Captain,'  affirmed  the  sun -bronzed  driver, 
with  slow  decision;  'but' — and  here  he 
double -thonged  the  off- wheeler,  as  if  in 
accentuation  of  his  statement — '  heat,  and 
flies,  and  muskeeters,  dust  and  sand  and  bad 
water,  ain'l  the  wust  of  this  road — not  by  a 
lonj:^  chalk  ! ' 

'  What  the  deuce;  can  be  worse  ?  '  demanded 
the  ex-militairc,  with  pardonable  acerbity. 
'Surely  no  ruffians  have  taken  to  the  bush 
lately  in  this  part  of  the  world  V 

'  Well,  I  did  hear  accidental-like  as  "  The 
Doctor"  and  two  other  cross  chaps,  whose 
names  I  won't  say,  had  laid  it  out  to  stick  us 
up  to-day.  They'd  heard  that  Mr.  Tr.u  knell 
was  going  up  to  ( )range,  and  they  have  it  in 


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for  him  along  o'  the  last  Bandamah  cattle 
racket.' 

'  Stop  the  coach,  the  infernal  scoundrels  ! 
What  do  they  expect  to  do  next  ?  The 
country  won't  be  fit  for  decent  people  to  live 
in  if  this  sort  of  thing  is  not  put  a  stop  to.' 

'  Well,  Captain  Devereux,'  replied  the 
driver,  a  tall,  sinewy,  slow-speaking  son  of 
the  soil,  '  if  I  was  you  I  wouldn't  trouble  my 
head  about  them  no  more  than  I  could  help. 
It  ain't  your  business,  as  one  might  say,  if 
they've  a  down  on  Tracknell.  He  nearly  got 
the  Doctor  shopped  over  them  Bandamah 
cattle,  an'  he  wasn't  in  it  at  all,  only  them 
Clarkson  boys.  My  notion  is  that  Tracknell 
got  wind  of  it  yesterday,  and  forgot  to  come 
a  purpose.' 

'So,  if  a  gang  of  rascally  cattle-stealers 
choose  to  stop  the  coach  that  I  travel  in,  I 
am  to  sit  still  because  I'm  not  the  man  they 
want,  who  did  his  duty  in  hunting  them 
down.' 

'  Now  hear  reason,  Captain  !  There  ain't 
a  chap  in  the  district,  square  or  cross,  that 
would  touch  you,  or  any  one  from  Corindah 
— no,  not  from  here  to  Baringun.     The  place 


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has  got  such  a  name  for  being  liberal-like  to 
gentle  and  simple.  If  we  meet  those  chaps 
— and  we've  got  the  Wild  Horse  plain  to 
cross  yet — you  take  my  tip  and  say  nothing 
to  them  if  they  don't  interfere  with  you.' 

The  man  to  whom  he  spoke  raised  his 
head  and  gazed  full  in  the  speaker's  face. 
The  expression  of  his  features  had  changed, 
and  there  was  a  hard  set  look,  altogether 
different  from  his  usually  frank  and  familiar 
air,  as  he  said,  '  Are  you  aware  that  I've  held 
Her  Majesty's  commission  .'* ' 

The  driver  took  his  horses  in  hand,  and 
sent  them  along  at  a  pace  to  which  for  many 
miles  they  had  been  strangers,  as  they  left 
the  heavy  sand  of  the  pine-hill  and  entered 
upon  the  baked  red  soil  of  the  plain. 

'  I'm  dashed  sorry  to  hear  it  now.'  h(;  said 
slowly.  'Some  people's  mighty  foiul  of 
having  their  own  way.  Yes,  by  God  !  I 
was  afeared  they'd  block  us  there.  They're 
a-waiting  ahead  near  that  sheep  break — three 
of  'em.  That's  the  Doctor  on  the  grey. 
Blast  him  ! ' 

With  this  conclusively  fervent  .Kljuralion, 
Mr.  Jne  Uates  pulled  liis  horses  into  a  steady 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROS  A  TION 


yet  fast  trot,  and  approached  the  three  men, 
who  sat  quietly  on  their  horses  near  a  rough 
timber  fence  which,  originally  constructed  for 
counting  a  passing  flock  of  sheep,  partly 
obstructed  the  road. 

Captain  Devereux  looked  keenly  at  the 
strangers,  then  at  the  driver,  as  he  drew  forth 
a  revolver  of  the  latest  pattern. 

*  Listen  to  me,  Bates !  I  can  make  fair 
shooting  with  this  at  fifty  yards.  When  they 
call  on  you  to  stop,  draw  up  the  team  quietly 
but  keep  them  in  hand.  Directly  I  fire,  send 
your  horses  along.  It  is  a  chance  if  they 
offer  to  follow.' 

'  For  God's  sake,  Captain,  don't  be  rash,' 
said  the  young  fellow  earnestly.  'I'm  no 
coward,  but  remember  there's  others  on  the 
coach.  Once  them  chaps  sees  Tracknell 
ain't  a  passenger,  they'll  clear — take  my 
word.  You  can't  do  no  good  by  fighting 
three  armed  men.' 

*  Do  as  you're  told,  my  good  fellow,'  re- 
turned his  passenger,  who  seemed  transformed 
into  quite  another  personage  from  the  good- 
natured,  easy-going  gentleman  with  whom  he 
had  been  chatting  all  day,  '  unless  you  wish 


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me  to  believe  that  you  are  in  league  with 
robbers  and  murderers.' 

Joe  Bates  made  no  further  remonstrance, 
but  drew  the  reins  carefully  through  his  hands 
in  the  method  affected  by  American  stage- 
coach drivers,  as  he  steadily  approached  the 
spot  where  the  men  sat,  statue-like,  on  their 
horses.  As  the  coach  came  abreast  of  them 
the  man  on  the  grey  turned  towards  it,  and, 
with  a  raised  revolver  in  his  hand,  shouted, 
'  Bail  up  ! ' 

The  leaders  stopped  obedient  to  the  rein. 
As  they  did  so  Captain  Devereux  fired 
three  shots  in  rapid  succession.  The  Hrst 
apparently  took  effect  on  the  rider  of  the 
grey  horse,  whose  right  arm  fell  to  his  side 
the  instant  after  he  had  discharged  his  pistol. 
The  second  man  staggered  in  his  seat,  and 
the  horse  of  th(;  third  robber  reared  and  fell 
over  on  his  rider,  who  narrowly  escaped 
being  crushed.  At  tin:  same  moment,  .it  a 
shout  from  the  driver,  the  team  started  at  a 
gallop,  and  taking  the  road  across  the  plain, 
hardly  relaxed  their  speed  until  the  hotel  at 
the  angle  of  the  Mackenzie  River  was  in 
sight. 


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Looking  back,  they  caught  one  gHmpse  of 
their  quondam  foes.  Two  were  evidently 
wounded,  while  the  third  man  was  reduced 
to  the  grade  of  a  foot -soldier.  There  was, 
therefore,  no  great  probability  of  pursuit  by 
this  highly  irregular  cavalry  force. 

'By  George!  Captain,'  said  the  driver, 
touching  up  the  leaders  with  renewed  confi- 
dence as  he  saw  the  outline  of  the  roadside 
inn  define  itself  more  clearly  in  the  late 
twilight,  '  you  can  shoot  straight  and  no 
mistake.  Dashed  if  I  could  hit  a  haystack 
without  a  rest.  The  Doctor  and  one  of  the 
other  chaps  fired  the  very  minute  you  did. 
One  ball  must  have  gone  very  close  to  you 
or  me.  I  felt  pretty  ticklish,  you  bet!  for 
I've  seen  the  beggar  hit  a  half-crown  at 
twenty  yards  before  now.' 

'  I  believe  he  did\{\t  me,'  said  Devereux, 
coolly  putting  his  hand  to  his  side.  '  It's 
only  a  graze ;  but  We'll  see  when  we  get 
down.      I  scarcely  felt  it  at  the  time.' 

'  Good  God  ! '  said  the  kind-hearted  young 
fellow.  '  You  don't  say  so.  Captain  ?  There's 
blood  on  your  coat  too.  We'll  have  a  look 
as  soon  as  we  get  to  Hyland's.' 


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'  It's  a  stranore   thincf  thoufrh,'  continued 

o  o  o 

Devercux,  '  that  unless  you're  hard  hit  you 
nev^er  know  whether  a  gunshot  wound  is 
serious  or  not.  It's  not  my  first  knock,  and 
I  certainly  shouldn't  like  it  to  be  the  last, 
after  an  engagement  of  this  nature.  How- 
ever, we  shall  soon  see.' 

Something  was  in  the  air.  As  they  drew 
up  before  the  inn  door,  the  customary  group 
awaiting  one  of  the  great  events  of  bush  life 
was  noticeably  swelled.  A  confused  murmur 
of  voices  arose,  in  tones  more  earnest  than 
ordinary  events  called  forth.  The  driver 
threw  his  reins  to  a  helper,  and  took  the 
landlord  aside. 

'  We've  been  stuck  up,  and  therc^'s  been  a 
bit  of  a  brush  with  the  Doctor's  mob.  They've 
got  it  hot,  but  the  Captain's  hit  too.  You 
send  a  boy  lo  1  )r.  Chalmers  at  Hastings 
townshij),  and  that  tlarkie  of  )()urs  to  the 
police  station.  The  Cai)tain  had  better  get 
to  bed.  The  mails  are  ri^ht  and  the  pas- 
sengers.' 

The  hotelkeeper,  beyond  a  brief  and  com- 
prehensive dedication  of  the  false  i)hysician 
to  the  infernal  powers,  forebore  remark,  and 


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SO  addressed  himself  to  the  practical  alter- 
native, that  within  five  minutes  two  eager 
youngsters,  one  black  and  one  white,  were 
riding  for  their  lives  towards  the  points 
indicated,  brimful  of  excitement  not  alto- 
gether of  an  unpleasant  nature,  as  being 
the  bearers  of  tragical  tidings,  and  thus  to 
be  held  free  from  blame — indeed,  to  be 
commended — if  they  did  the  distance  in  less 
than  the  best  recorded  time. 

Inside  the  hotel  the  bustle  was  consider- 
able. The  bar  was  crowded,  groups  of  men 
surrounded  the  inside  passengers,  who  had 
each  his  tale  of  wonder  and  miraculous 
escape  to  relate.  '  The  Captain  had  behaved 
like  a  hero.  Knocked  over  one  man,  broke 
the  Doctor's  shoulder,  and  dropped  the  third 
chap's  horse  nearly  atop  of  him.  If  there'd 
only  been  another  revolver  in  the  coach 
they'd  have  took  the  lot  easy.  All  the  same, 
they'd  just  as  well  have  let  them  have  what 
they'd  a  mind  too.  They  only  wanted  to 
serve  out  Tracknell,  and  when  they  found  he 
wasn't  there  they'd  have  gone  off  as  like  as 
not.  If  the  Captain  was  hurt — as  looked 
likely — his  life  was  worth  all  the  bushrangers 


lo  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

between  here  and  Bourke,  and  a  d d  bad 

swop  at  that.' 

'Well,  but  some  one  must  fight,'  said  a 
pot-valorous  bar  loafer,  '  else  they'd  take  the 
countr\-  from  us.' 

'That's  a  dashed  sight  more  than  ]7'.v'd 
do,  in  my  opinion,'  retorted  the  speaker,  who 
was  a  back-block  storekeeper.  '  We  can  do 
our  share,  I  suppose,  when  there's  no  other 
show.  Ihit  we  should  have  been  all  safe 
here  now  if  we'd  taken  cm  easy  —  a  few 
notes  poorer,  but  what's  that?  'llu-  police 
are  paid  for  shooting  these  chaps,  not  us. 
And  if  tlu-  Captain  never  goes  back  to 
Corindah,  but  has  to  see  it  out  in  a  busli  pub 
like  this,  I  say  it's  hard  lines.  However, 
Chalmers  will  be  her(!  in  an  hour- -if  he's 
sober — and  then  we'll  know.' 

The  sound  of  galloping  hoofs  in  less 
than  the  specified  time  caused  every  one  to 
adjourn  to  the  verandah,  when  the  cjuestion 
of  identity,  as  two  figures  emerged  from  a 
cloud  of  dust,  was  cjuickly  settled  by  a  local 
expert.  'That's  the*  doc's  chestnut  by  the 
way  he  holds  his  head,  and  he's  as  sob(!r  as 
a  judge.' 


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'  How  can  you  tell  that  ? '  queried  a 
wondering  passenger. 

'  Why,  easy  enough.  Doc's  not  man 
enough  for  the  chestnut  except  when  he's 
right  off  it.  When  he's  betwixt  and  be- 
tween like  he  takes  the  old  bay  mare.  She 
stops  for  him  if  he  tumbles  off,  and  would 
carry  him  home  unsensible,  I  b'leeve,  a'most, 
if  she  could  only  histe  him  Into  the  saddle.' 

The  medical  practitioner  referred  to  rode 
proudly  into  the  inn  yard  unconscious  of  the 
critical  ordeal  he  had  undergone,  and  throw- 
ing down  the  reins  of  his  clever  hackney, 
walked  into  the  house,  followed  by  the 
respectful  crowd. 

'  Bad  affair,  Hyland,'  he  said  to  the 
landlord.  '  Which  room  ?  No.  3  ?  All  right ! 
I'll  call  for  you  as  soon  as  I  look  the  Captain 
over.      It  may  be  nothing  after  all.' 

Enterinof  the  bedroom  to  which  the 
wounded  man  had  retired,  he  found  him  sit- 
ting at  a  small  table,  smoking  a  cigar  with  his 
coat  off  and  busily  engaged  in  writing  a  letter. 
This  occupation  he  relinquished,  leaving  the 
unfinished  sheet  and  greeting  the  medico 
cordially.      '  Glad  to  see  you,  doctor.     Wish 


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it  was  a  pleasanter  occasion.  W'c  sliall  soon 
know  how  to  class  the  interview — Devereux 
shghtly,  seriously,  or  dangerously  wounded 
has  been  in  niore  than  one  butcher's  bill. 
One  may  hold  these  things  too  cheap,  how- 
ever.' 

'  Take  off  your  shirt,  Captain  ;  we're  losins^ 
time,'  said  the  doctor  ;  '  talk  as  much  as  you 
like  afterwards.  Hum  !  ha  !  gunshot  wound — • 
small  orifice — upper  ribs — may  have  lodged  in 
muscles  of  the  shoulders.  Excuse  me.'  Here 
he  introduced  a  flexible  shining  piece  of  steel, 
with  which  he  cautiously  followed  the  track 
of  the  bullet.  His  brow  became  contracted 
and  his  face  betrayed  disappointment  as  he 
drew  back  the  probe  and  wiped  it  medita- 
tively in  restoring  it  to  its  case.  '  Can't  find 
the  bullet — gone  another  direction.  Take  a 
respiration,  Captain.  Good.  Now  cough, 
if  you  please.' 

'  Do  you  feel  any  internal  sensation  ;  slight 
jjain  hcr<',  for  instance.'*'  The  Captain 
nodded  affirmalixely.  '  Inclination  to  expec- 
torate } ' 

'Yes.' 

*lla!    much   as    1    feared.       Now   put  on 


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your  shirt  again  ;  and  if  I  were  you,  I'd  get 
into  bed.' 

'  Not  just  yet,  if  you'll  allow  me  ;  we  had 
better  settle  this  question  first.  Is  the 
matter  serious — you  know  what  I  mean — or 
only  so  so  ? " 

'  You're  a  strong  man,  Captain,  and  have 
seen  all  this  before.  I  shall  tell  you  exactly 
how  the  matter  stands.  This  confounded 
lead  pill,  small  as  it  is,  has  not  taken  the  line 
I  hoped  it  had  towards  the  shoulder  or 
lumbar  muscles.  It  has  turned  inwards. 
You  have  been  shot  through  the  lungs, 
Captain,  and,  of  course,  you  know  the 
chances  are  against  you.' 

The  wounded  man  nodded  his  head,  and 
lit  another  cigar,  offering  the  doctor  one, 
which  he  took. 

'  Well !  a  man  must  go  when  his  time 
comes.  All  soldiers  know  that.  For  my 
wife's  sake  and  the  darling  of  our  hearts' 
I  could  have  wished  it  otherwise.  Poor 
Mary!  It  might  have  been  avoided,  as  the 
driver  said  ;  but  then  I  should  have  had  to 
have  changed  natures  with  some  one  else. 
It  is  Kismet,  as  the  Moslem  says — written 


14  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

in  the  book  of  fate  from  the  beorinning  of  the 
world.  And  now,  tlc)ctt)r,  when  will  the 
inflammation  come  on  ? ' 

'Perhaps  to-night  late;  certainly  to- 
morrow.' 

'  I  may  smoke,  I  suppose  ;  and  I  want  to 
write  a  letter  before  my  head  gets  affected.' 

'  Do  anything  you  like,  my  dear  sir.  You 
can't  catch  cold  this  weather.  Take  a  glass 
of  brandy  if  you  feel  faini.  No,  thanks ! 
none  for  me  at  present.  See  you  early  to- 
morrow. I'll  tell  Mrs.  Hyland  what  to  do  if 
hcemorrhao;-e  sets  in.     Good-nio;ht ! ' 

The  doomed  man  smoked  his  cigar  out 
as  he  gazed  across  the  broad  reach  of  the 
river,  on  a  high  bluff  of  which  tin-  house  had 
been  built.  '  Done  out  of  my  swim,  too,'  he 
muttered,  with  a  half  smile.  '  I  can  hardly 
believe  it  all  to  be  true.  How  often  a  man 
reads  of  this  sort  of  thing,  little  e.xjjecting  it 
will  come  home  to  himself.  b'oriy  -  eight 
hours,  at  the  utmost,  to  prepare!  How  the 
stars  glitter  in  the  still  water!  To  think 
that  I  shall  know  so  much  more  about  them 
before  Saturday,  most  i)robably  at  any  rate. 
What    a    strange    idea!      Poor    Ahu-y  I    what 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION 


will  she  do  when  she  hears  ?  Poor  darling ! 
expecting  me  home  on  Saturday  evening, 
and  now  never  to  meet  on  earth.  Never, 
nevermore !  To  think  that  I  kissed  her 
and  the  bright,  loving  little  darling  PoUie — 
how  she  clung  round  my  neck ! — for  the  last 
time!  The  last  time  !  It  is  hard,  very  hard  ! 
I  feel  a  choking  sort  of  feeling  in  my  chest 
— that  wasn't  there  before.  I  had  better 
begin  my  letter.  The  letter — the  last  on 
earth. ' 

He  flung  away  the  fragment  of  the  cigar, 
and  sat  down  wearily  to  the  letter  which  was 
to  be  the  farewell  message  of  Brian  Devereux 
to  his  wife  and  child.  How  dear  they  were 
to  him — reckless  in  some  respects  as  his  life 
had  been — until  then,  he  never  knew  before. 
He  sat  there  writing  and  making  memoranda 
until  long  after  midnight.  Then  he  lit  one 
last  cigar,  which  he  smoked  slowly  and 
calmly  to  the  end.  '  They  are  very  good. 
I  may  never  get  another.  Who  knows  what 
the  morrow  may  bring  forth  }  Good-night, 
my  darlings ! '  he  said,  waving  his  hand  in 
the  direction  of  Corindah.  'Good -night, 
sweet  fond  wife  and  child  of  my  love !     God 


1 6  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

keep  and  preserv^e  you  when  I  am  gone ! 
Good -night,  my  pleasant  home,  its  easy 
duties  and  measureless  content !  Good-night, 
O  earth  and  sea,  wherein  I  have  roamed  so 
far  and  sailed  so  many  a  league !  Once 
more,  darlings  of  my  heart,  farewell !  A 
lon^if  orood-nii^ht ! ' 

And  so,  having  an  instinctive  feeling  that 
the  hour  was  at  hand  when  the  injured 
mechanism  of  the  lleshly  frame,  grandly 
perfect  as  it  had  hitherto  proved  itself,  would 
no  longer  provide  expression  for  the  free 
spirit,  Brian  Devereux,  outworn  and  faint, 
sought  the  couch  from  which  he  was  never 
to  arise.  At  daylight  h(.'  was  delirious,  while 
the  frequent  passage  of  blood  and  hoih  from 
his  unconscious  lips  confirmed  the  correct- 
ness of  the  medical  diagnosis.  Before  the 
evening  (jf  the  following  day  the  proud, 
loyal,  gallant  spirit  of  Brian  Devereux  was 
at  rest.  He  lies  bent-alh  the  waving  d(!S(M-t 
acacia,  in  the  graveyard  hy  the  river  all<)lt<:d 
to  the  little  town  of  1  lastings.  1  \v  was 
followed  to  the  grave  by  every  man  of  note 
and  j)osition  in  a  large  j)astoral  district  ;  and 
on   the  marble  tombstone  which   was  in  the 


I  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  17 

after-time  erected  at  the  public  cost  above  his 
mortal  remains  are  included  the  words  : — 

'Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Brian  Devereux, 

LATE  Captain  of  H.M.  88th  Regiment, 

who  was  mortally  wounded  by  bushrangers 

while  making  a  gallant  and  successful  defence. 

Honour  to  the  brave  ! ' 

So  fell  a  gallant  man-at-arms,  obscurely  slain 
— ingloriously  in  a  sense,  yet  dying  in  strict 
accordance  with  the  principles  which  had 
actuated  him  through  life.  There  was  deep, 
if  not  ostentatious,  sorrow  in  his  old  regiment, 
and  more  than  one  comrade  emptied  his 
glass  at  the  mess  table  more  frequently  the 
night  the  news  came  of  the  death  of  Brian 
Devereux,  whom  all  men  admired,  and 
many  women  had  loved. 

Brave  to  recklessness,  talented,  grandly 
handsome,  the  darling  of  the  mess,  the  idol 
of  the  regiment,  the  descendant  of  a  Norman 
family  long  domiciled  in  the  west  of  Ireland, 
he  had  always  exhibited,  commingled  with 
brilliant  and  estimable  qualities,  a  certain 
wayward  impatience  of  restraint  which  at 
critical  periods  of  his  career  had  hindered 
his    chance  of   promotion.      A  good-natured 


1 8  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chai-. 

superior,  on  more  than  one  occasion,  had 
reported  favourably  on  differences  of  opinion 
scarcely  in  accordance  with  the  canons  of 
the  Horse  Guards,  At  length  a  breach  of 
discipline  occurred  too  serious  to  be  over- 
looked. In  truth,  a  provoking,  unreasonable 
martinet  narrowly  escaped  personal  discom- 
fiture. Captain  Devereux  was  compelled  to 
send  in  his  papers,  to  the  despair  of  the 
subalterns  and  the  deep  though  suppressed 
discontent  of  the  regiment. 

Sorely  hurt  and  aggrieved,  though  far 
too  proud  for  outward  sign,  he  resolved  to 
(juii  the  mother- land  for  the  more  free, 
untrammelled  life  of  a  new  world.  The 
occasion  was  fortunate.  The  sale  of  his 
commission,  with  a  younger  son's  portion, 
sufficed  at  that  lime  to  purchase  Corindah  at 
a  low  price,  on  favourable  terms.  Adopting, 
with  all  llie  enthusiasm  of  his  nature,  the 
free,  adventurous  career  of  an  Australian 
squatter,  he  married  the  lair  and  trusting 
daughter  of  a  high  (iovernmenl  official — 
herself  a  descendant  of  oiu;  of  the  old  colonial 
families  of  distinction, —and  bade  fair,  in  ilie 
enjoyment  of  unclouded  domestic  happiness 


I  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  19 

and  the  management  of  a  confessedly 
improving  property,  to  become  one  of  the 
leading  pastoral  magnates  of  the  land. 

But  who  shall  appease  Fate  ?  The  bolt 
fell,  leaving  the  fair,  fond  wife  a  widow,  and 
the  baby  daughter  fatherless,  whose  infantine 
charms  had  aroused  the  deepest  feelings  of 
his  nature. 

After  the  first  transports  of  her  grief,  Mrs. 
Devereux,  with  the  calm  decision  of  purpose 
which  marked  her  character,  adopted  the 
course  which  was  to  guide  her  future  life. 
At  Corindah  she  had  tasted  the  early  joys  of 
her  bridal  period.  There  her  babe  had  been 
born.  There  had  her  beloved,  her  idolised 
husband — the  worshipped  hero  of  the  out- 
wardly calm  but  intensely  impassioned  Mary 
Cavendish — pleased  himself  in  a  congenial 
occupation,  with  visions  of  prosperity  and  dis- 
tinction yet  to  come.  She  would  never  leave 
Corindah.  It  should  be  her  home  and  that  of 
his  child  after  her.  Her  resolution  formed, 
she  proceeded  to  put  in  practice  her  ideas. 
She  retained  the  overseer — a  steady,  experi- 
enced man,  in  whom  her  husband  had  had 
confidence.      She  went  over  the  books    and 


20  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chai-. 

accounts,  thus  satisfying  herself  of  the  sol- 
vency and  exact  position  of  the  estate.  This 
done,  she  explained  to  him  that  she  intended 
to  retain  the  establishment  in  her  own  hands, 
and  trusted,  with  his  assistance,  to  make  it 
progressive  and  remunerative. 

'  Captain  Devereux,  my  poor  husband,' 
she  said,  '  had  the  greatest  confidence  in  you. 
It  is  my  intention  to  live  here — in  this  place 
which  he  loved  and  improved  so  much — as 
long  as  there  is  sufiicient  for  me  ami  my  baby 
to  live  on.  I  shall  trust  to  you,  Mr.  Gate- 
ward,  to  do  for  me  exactly  as  you  would 
have  done  for  him.'  Here  the  steady  voice 
trembled,  and  the  tears  that  would  not  be 
suppressed  (lowed  fast. 

'  1  will  do  thai  and  more,  Mrs.  Devereux,' 
said  the  plain,  blunt  bushman.  '  Corindah  is 
the  best  station  on  the  river,  and  il  tiie  seasons 
hold  middling  fair,  it  will  keep  double  the 
stock  it  has  on  now  in  a  few  years.  You 
leave  it  to  mt!,  ma'am  ;  I'll  \)v.  bound  the  run 
will  liiid  a  home  and  a  snug  bank  account  for 
)()w  and  missic  for  many  a  year  to  coiik,-.' 

lietween  Mr.  (ialcward  and  Corindah 
Plains,  'the  best  run  on   this  side  ol    Minga- 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION 


dee,'  as  the  men  said,  the  promise  had  been 
kept.  The  years  had  been  favourable  on  the 
average.  When  the  dire  distress  of  drought 
came  there  had  been  a  reserve  of  pasture 
which  had  sufficed  to  tide  over  the  season 
of  adversity.  Besides  this,  Corindah  was 
decidedly  a  'lucky  run,'  a  favoured  'bit  of 
country.'  When  all  the  land  was  sore 
stricken  with  grass  and  water  famines,  it  had 
springs  which  never  ran  dry  ;  '  storms '  too 
fell  above  Corindah ;  also  strayed  water- 
spouts, while  all  around  was  dry  as  Gideon's 
fleece.  In  the  two  decades  which  were 
coming  to  an  end  when  Pollie  Devereux  had 
reached  womanhood,  the  rigid  economy  and 
unwavering  prudence  with  which  the  property 
had  been  managed  had  borne  fruit.  The 
credit  balance  at  the  bank  had  swelled  notice- 
ably during  the  later  and  more  fortunate 
years.  And  Mrs.  Devereux  was  known 
to  be  one  of  the  wealthiest  pastoral  pro- 
prietors in  a  district  where  the  extensive 
run -holders  were  gradually  accumulating 
immense  freeholds  and  colossal  fortunes. 
A  temporary  check  had  taken  place  during 
the  last  most  unfortunate  season.      No  rain 


22  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

had  fallen  for  nearly  a  year.  The  loss  ot 
stock  on  all  sides  had  been  terrific,  well-nigh 
unprecedented.  Mrs.  Devereux,  rather  over- 
prudent  and  averse  to  expenditure  (as  are 
women  mostly,  from  Queen  Elizabeth  down- 
wards, when  they  have  the  uncontrolled 
management  of  affairs),  had  felt  keenly  the 
drawbacks  and  disasters  of  the  period. 

'  I  wonder  if  we  shall  get  our  letters  to- 
morrow, mother,'  said  Pollie  Devereux  to  tliat. 
lady,  as  they  sat  at  breakfast  at  Corindah  on 
one  clear,  bricfht  autumnal  mornins^.  '  ThinQfs 
do  really  happen  if  you  wait  long  enough.' 

'  What  is  going  to  happen  } '  asked  the 
elder  lady  dreamily,  as  if  hardly  aroused  from 
a  previous  train  of  disturbing  thoughts.  '  We 
are  all  going  to  be  ruined,  or  nearly  so,  if  the 
winter  proves  dry.  Mr.  Gateward  says  the 
cattle  never  looked  so  wretched  for  years,  and 
the  poor  sheep  are  beginning  to  tlie  already.' 

'Mr.  (iateward  is  a  raven  tor  croaking; 
not  thai  I  ever  saw  one,  but  it  sounds 
well,'  replied  the  girl.  'lb'  has  no  imagina- 
tion. \\'Ii\-  didn't  he  send  llic  shccj)  away  to 
the  inoiiiuaiiis  bclorc  they  got  .so  weak,  as 
Mr.  Chartt:ris  and    .Mr.    .Athr-rstone  did  ?      Il 


I  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  23 

will  be  all  his  fault  if  they  die,  besides  the 
shocking  cruelty  of  slow  starvation.' 

'  He  is  a  conscientious,  hard-working, 
worthy  man,'  said  Mrs-  Devereux.  'We 
should  find  it  difficult  to  replace  him.  Besides, 
travelling  sheep  is  most  expensive.  You  are 
too  impatient,  my  dear.  We  may  have  rain 
yet,  you  know.' 

'  I  wish  I  had  been  a  boy,  mother,'  replied 
the  unconvinced  damsel,  drumming  her  fingers 
on  the  table  as  she  looked  wistfully  through 
the  open  casement,  festooned  by  a  great  trail- 
ing climber,  to  where  the  dim  blue  of  a 
distant  mountain  range  broke  the  monotony 
of  the  plain.  '  It  seems  to  me  that  none  of 
the  men  we  know  have  energy  or  enterprise 
enough  to  go  beyond  the  dull  round  of 
routine  in  which  they  have  been  reared. 
Sheep  ;and  cattle,  cattle  and  sheep,  with 
a  little  turf  talk  for  variation.  They  smoke 
all  day,  because  they  can't  talk,  and  never 
think.  Surely  new  countries  were  not  dis- 
covered or  the  world's  battles  fought  by 
people  like  those  I  see.  I  think  I  should 
have  been  different,  mother,  don't  you  ? ' 

'  I  am  sure  of  that,  my  darling,'  answered 


THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 


the  mother  with  a  sigh,  patting  the  girl's 
bright  abundant  hiiir  as  she  rose  in  her 
eagerness  and  stood  before  her.  '  You  put 
me  in  mind  of  your  father  when  you  look  like 
that.  But  you  must  never  forget  that  the 
world's  exciting  work  is  rarely  allotted  to 
women.  The  laws  of  society  are  harsh,  but 
those  of  our  sex  that  resist  them  are  chiefly 
unhappy,  always  worsted  in  the  end.  I\Iy 
girl  cannot  help  her  eager,  impatient  heart, 
but  she  will  never  despise  her  mother's 
teaching,  will  she  ? ' 

'  Never  while  life  lasts,'  said  the  girl 
impetuously,  throwing  her  arm  round  the 
elder  woman's  neck,  and  burying  her  face  in 
her  bosom  with  childlike  alxuKlon— '  not 
when  she  has  an  angel  for  a  mother,  like  me  ; 
but  I  am  -SO  tired  and  wearied  out  with  the 
terrible  sameness  of  the  life  we  lead.  Though 
I  have  been  here  all  my  lifer.  1  .seem  to  get 
less  and  less  abU:  to  bear  il.  I  am  afraiil 
1  am  very  wicked,  mother.  I)ut  surely 
God  never  intended  us  lo  \\\c  and  dii:  at 
Corindah  ?  ' 

'  I)Ut  you  will  b(t  palienl,  darling?'  said 
the    mother    tenderly,    as    with    every     lontl 


I  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  25 

endearment  she  soothed  the  restless,  un- 
famihar  spirit  newly  arisen  from  the  hitherto 
unruffled  depths  of  the  maiden's  nature. 
'  You  know  I  had  intended  to  take  you  to 
Sydney    for    the    summer    months,    if    this 

terrible  season  had  not  set  in.     But  when ' 

'When  the  rain  comes,  when  the  grass 
grows — when  the  millennium  of  the  pastoral 
world  arrives — we  may  hope  to  have  a 
glimpse  of  Paradise,  as  represented  by 
Sydney,  the  Botanical  Gardens,  and  the 
Queen's -birthday  ball.  That's  what  you 
were  going  to  say,  mother  darling,  wasn't  it  ? 
Poor  old  mother !  while  you're  fretting  about 
those  troublesome  sheep,  poor  things,  that 
always  seem  to  be  wanting  water,  or  grass, 
or  rock-salt,  which  doesn't  happen  to  be 
procurable — here's  your  ungrateful,  rebellious 
child  crying  for  the  moon,  to  make  matters 
worse.  I'm  ashamed  of  myself;  I  deserve 
to  be  whipped  and  sent  to  bed — not  that  I 
ever  was,  you  soft-hearted  old  mammy. 
Besides,  isn't  this  delightful  unknown  cousin, 
Captain  Devereux,  coming  some  fine  day  ? 
He's  a  whole  chapter  of  romance  in  himself 
I  declare  I  had  forgotten  all  about  him.' 


26  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

The  foregoing  conversation  was  held  in 
the  morning  room  of  the  very  comfortable 
cottage — or  one  might  say  one  of  the  cottages 
— which,  with  a  score  of  other  buildings  of 
various  sorts  and  sizes,  heights  and  breadths, 
acres  and  orders  of  architecture,  went  to  make 
up  Corindah  head  station.  Perhaps  the  build- 
ing referred  to  had  the  highest  pretension  to 
be  called  '  the  house ' — inasmuch  as  it  was 
larger,  more  ornate,  and  more  closely  envir- 
oned with  flower-beds,  shrubs,  and  trailing, 
many-coloured  climbers,  all  of  which  bore 
tokens  of  careful  tendance — tlian  any  of  the 
others.  As  for  the  outward  appearance  of 
the  edifice,  it  was  composed  of  solid  sawn 
timber,  disposed  outwardly  in  the  form  of 
horizontal  slabs,  lined  more  carefully  as  to 
the  inner  side ;  the  whole  finished  with  gay, 
fresh  wall-papers  and  appropriate  mouldings. 
A  broad,  low  verandah  ran  around  the  house. 
A  wide  hall,  of  which  both  back  and  front 
doors  seemed  to  be  permanently  opt-n,  com- 
pletely bisected  the  building.  Wire  stands, 
upon  which  stood  delicate  pot-plants  of  ev(!ry 
shade  of  V\i\{  and  flower,  gave  a  greenhouse 
air  to  this  division.      At  a  short  distance,  and 


I  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  27 

situated  within  the  enclosed  garden,  was  a 
smaller,  older  building  of  much  the  same  form 
and  proportion.  This  was  known  as  '  the 
barrack,'  and  was  delivered  over  to  Mr. 
Gateward  and  such  bachelor  guests  as  might 
from  time  to  time  visit  the  station.  This 
arrangement,  which  often  obtains  in  bush 
residences,  is  found  to  be  highly  convenient 
and  satisfactory.  In  the  sitting-room  smoking 
and  desultory,  even  jovial  conversation  can 
be  carried  on,  together  with  the  moderate 
consumption  of  refreshments,  around  the  fire, 
after  the  ladies  of  the  household  have  retired, 
without  disturbing  any  one.  In  summer  the 
verandah,  littered  with  cane  lounges  and  ham- 
mocks, can  be  similarly  used.  In  the  event 
of  an  early  departure  being  necessary,  the 
man-cook  of  the  junior  establishment  can  be 
relied  on  to  provide  breakfast  at  any  reason- 
able, or  indeed  unreasonable,  hour. 

On  several  accounts  Corindah  was  looked 
upon  as  a  representative  station,  one  of  the 
show  places  of  the  district.  It  was  a  stage 
which  was  seldom  missed  by  any  of  the 
younger  squatters  who  could  find  a  con- 
venient  excuse   for   calling   there,    upon   the 


28  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

journey  either  to  or  from  the  metropolis.      It 
was   a  large,  prosperous,  naturally  favoured 
tract  of  country,  a  considerable  and  increas- 
ingly  valuable    property.       It   was   managed 
after  a  liberal,  hospitable,  and  kindly  fashion. 
Mrs.   Devereux,  though  most  unobtrusive  in 
all  her  ways,  permitted  it  to  be  known  that 
she  did  not  approve  of  her   friends  passing 
the    door   without    calling ;  and    they    were, 
certainly,  treated  so  well   th:it   there  was  no 
great    inducement    to    neglect    that    form   of 
respect.     There  was  yet  another  reason  why 
few  of  the  travellers  along  the  north-western 
road,  friends,  acquaintances,  or  even  strangers, 
passed  by  the  hospitable  gate  of   Corindah. 
During  these  eventful  years  Mary  Augusta, 
generally  spoken  of  as  '  Pollie  Devereux  '  by 
all  who  could  claim  anything  bordering  upon 
the  necessary  grade  of  iiuimacy,  had  grown 
to  be  the  handsomest  -irl   within  a  hundred 
miles  of  the  secluded  spot  in  which  she  had 
been  born  and  brouglu  up. 

And  sh(!  was  certainly  a  maiden  fair,  of 
mien  and  face  that  would  have  entrancetl 
that  sculptor  of  old  whose  half- divine 
impress    upon    the    marble    will    ouilasl    how 


I  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  29 

many  a  changing  fashion,  how  many  a  fleeting 
age  !  Tall,  lithe,  and  vigorous,  yet  completed 
as  to  hand  and  foot  with  an  exquisite  delicacy 
that  contrasted  finely  with  the  full  moulding 
of  her  tapering  arms,  her  stately  poise,  her 
rounded  form,  blue-eyed,  tawny-haired,  with 
classic  features  and  a  regal  air,  she  looked 
like  some  virgin  goddess  of  the  olden  myth- 
ology, a  wood-nymph  strayed  from  Arcadian 
forests  ere  earlier  faiths  erew  dim  and 
ancient  monarchs  were  discrowned. 


CHAPTER    II 

The  heiress  of  Corinclah  had  been  carefully 
educated  in  a  manner  befitting  her  birth,  as 
also  the  position  she  was  likely  to  occupy 
in  after-life.  Governesses  had  been  secured 
for  her  of  the  highest  qualifications,  at  the 
most  liberal  salaries.  Her  talents  for  music 
and  drawing  had  been  highly  cultivated. 
For  the  last  three  years  of  her  educational 
term  she  had  resided  in  Sydney  with  a 
relative,  so  that  she  might  have  the  benefit 
of  masters  and  professors.  She  had  i)rofited 
largely  by  instruction.  She  had  read  more 
widely  and  methodically  than  most  young 
women.  Well  grounded  in  French  and 
Italian,  she  had  a  handy  smattering  of 
German,  such  as  would  cMiable  her,  in  days 
to  come,  either  to  j)(rl(jct  herself  in  the 
language    by  conxersation    or  U)  dive    more 


CHAP.  II  THE  CROOKED  STICK  31 

deeply  into  the  literature  than  in  the   care- 
lessness of  youth  she  thought  necessary. 

These  things  being  matters  of  general 
knowledge  and  common  report  in  the  district, 
it  was  held  as  a  proved  fact  by  the  wives 
and  daughters  of  her  neighbours  that  Pollie 
Devereux  had  got  everything  in  the  world 
that  she  could  possibly  wish  for.  Agreed 
also  that,  if  anything,  she  was  a  great  deal  too 
well  off,  having  been  petted  and  indulged  in 
every  way  since  her  babyhood.  That  she 
ought  to  be  only  too  thankful  for  these  rare 
advantages,  whereas  at  times  she  was  dis- 
contented with  her  lot  in  life,  and  professed 
her  desire  for  change — which  was  a  clear 
indication  that  she  was  spoiled  by  over- 
indulgence, and  did  not  know  what  was  for 
her  real  good.  That  her  mother,  poor  Mrs. 
Devereux,  ought  to  have  been  more  strict 
with  her.  These  well-intentioned  critics 
were  not  so  far  astray  on  general  principles. 
They,  however,  omitted  consideration  of  one 
well-established  fact,  that  amid  the  hosts  of 
ordinary  human  beings,  evolved  generation 
after  generation  from  but  slightly  differing 
progenitors,  and  amenable  chiefly  to  similar 


32  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

social  laws,  strongly  marked  varieties  of  the 
race  have  from  time  to  time  arisen.  These 
phenomenal  personages  have  diflered  from 
their  compeers  in  a  ratio  of  divergence 
altogether  incomprehensible  to  the  ordinary 
intelligence. 

Whence  originating,  the  fact  remains  that 
each  generation  of  mankind  is  liable  to  be 
enriched  or  confounded  In'  the  apparition 
of  individuals  of  abnormal  force,  beauty,  or 
intellect.  Neither  does  it  seem  possible  for 
the  Anil. I  or  the  raincrlanc,  iht;  Semiramis 
or  the  Cleopatra  of  the  period  to  escape  the 
destiny  that  accompanies  the  birthright, 
wh(?ther  it  he  empire  or  martyrdom,  the 
sovereignty  of  hearts  or  the  disposal  of 
kingdoms.  In  spite  of  all  apparent  restraint 
of  circumstance,  the  unchangeable  type, 
doriiiani  perhaps  for  centuries,  reasserts  its 
ancestral  attributes. 

Su(h. 

'  I'lll  tlic  Sim  liirns  cold, 
And  the  stars  grow  old, 
And  the  leaves  of  the  Judgmenlljook  unfold,' 

will  be  the  course  of  Nature.  The  '  mute 
inglorious   Milton'   is  liic  point's  fiction,      lie 


11  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  33 

is  not  mute,  but  bursts  into  song,  which,  if  a 
wild  untutored  melody,  has  the  richness  of 
the  warbling  bird,  the  power  of  the  storm, 
the  grandeur  of  heaven's  own  wind-harp. 
The  '  Cromwell  guiltless  of  his  country's 
blood  '  remains  not  in  the  stern  world  of  facts 
the  patient  hind,  the  brow-beaten  servitor. 
He  leads  armies  and  sways  nations.  To  the 
soldier  of  fortune,  who  smiles  only  on  the 
battle-field,  and  comprehends  intuitively  the 
movements  of  battalions,  book-knowledgfe  is 
superfluous  and  learning  vain.  He  finds  his 
opportunity,  or  makes  it.  And  the  world  of 
his  day  knows  him  for  its  master. 

And  the  queen  of  society,  what  of  her  ? 
Like  the  poet,  nascitui'-  non  fit,  she  is  born 
not  manufactured.  Doubtless,  the  jewel 
may  be  heightened  by  the  setting,  but  the 
diamond  glitters  star-like  in  the  rough.  The 
red  gold-fire  burns  in  the  darksome  mine. 
Pollie  Devereux,  her  admirers  asserted, 
would  have  ruled  her  luonde  had  she  been 
born  a  nursery-maid  or  an  orange-girl.  Her 
beauty,  her  grace,  her  courage,  her  natural 
savoir-faire,  would  have  carried  her  high  up 
the  giddy  heights  of  social  ladders  in  despite 


34  THE  CROOKED  STICK 


of  all  the  drawbacks  which  ever  delayed  the 
triumph  of  a  heroine. 

Still,  the  while  we  are  indulging  in  these 
flights  of  imagination,  our  bush-bred  maiden 
is  a  calmly  correct  damsel,  outwardly  con- 
venti(Mially  arrayed,  and  but  for  a  deep-seated 
vein  of  latent  ambition  and  an  occasional 
fire-llash  of  brilliant  unlikeness,  undistinguish- 
able  from  the  demoiselles  bicn-i'Iei't'es  of 
eighteen  or  twcnly  that  an-  to  work  such 
weal  or  woe  with  unsuspicious  mankind.  In 
a  general  way  this  young  woman's  unrest  antl 
disapproval  of  her  environments  merely  took 
the  form  of  a  settled  determination  to  explore 
the  wondrous  capitals,  the  brilliant  .societies, 
the  glory  and  splendour  of  the;  OKI  World — 
to  ro.un  through  that  l.iiry-laiid  of  which 
from  her  very  childhood  she  had  eagerly 
read  the;  legends,  dreamed  the  dreams,  and 
learned  the  languages.  '  Imager  -  hearted 
as  a  boy,'  all- womanly  as  she  was  in  her 
thi(rf  altriJjutes,  she  coukl  not  slake  llu; 
thirst  for  change,  travel,  and  adventure, 
even  danger,  with  a  draught  less  deep 
th.ui  actual  t-xperience.  ll  she  had  been 
her    filher's    son    instead    of    his     daughter, 


II  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  35 

the  inborn   feeling  could   hardly  have   been 
stronger. 

When  she  thought  of  leaving  her  mother, 
in  whom  all  the  softer  feelings  of  her  heart 
found  their  natural  home  and  refuse,  she 
wept  long  and  often.  But  still  the  passionate 
desire  to  be  a  part  of  all  of  which  she  had 
read  and  dreamed,  to  see  with  her  eyes,  to 
hear  with  her  ears,  the  sights  and  sounds  of 
far  lands,  grew  with  her  growth  and  strength- 
ened with  her  strength.  As  the  months,  the 
years  rolled  on,  it  acquired  the  power  of  fate, 
of  a  resistless  destiny  for  good  or  evil ;  of 
a  dread,  unknown,  controlling  power,  which 
beckoned  her  with  a  shadowy  hand,  and  exer- 
cised a  mysterious  fascination. 

That  there  are  men  so  formed,  so  endowed 
with  natures  apart  from  the  common  herd  of 
toilers  and  pleasure-seekers,  no  one  doubts. 
It  is  equally  true  that  there  are  women  set 
apart  by  original  birthright  as  clearly  distinct 
from  the  tame  tribes  of  conventional  captives. 
But  society,  to  strengthen  its  despotic  rule, 
chooses  to  ignore  the  fact,  preferring  rather 
to  coerce  rebellion  than  to  decorate  distinc- 
tion. 


36  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiaf. 

The  eventful  clays  Icadintx  slowly,  but  all 
too  surely,  towards  the  tragedy  which  is  too 
apt  ti)  follow  the  id)llic  course  of  our  early 
years,  fleeted  by  ;  a  too  peaceful,  undisturbed 
l)eriod  had  arrived.  Another  morning  broke 
clear  and  bright,  as  free  from  cloud  or  wind, 
mist  or  storm  wrack,  in  that  land  of  too 
changeless  summer,  as  if  winter  had  been 
banisheil  to  another  hemisphere. 

'Oh  dear!'  (.'xclaimed  Pollie,  as  springing 
from  her  l)ed  she  ran  lightly  to  the  open 
window,  and  drawing  up  the  green  jalousies 
gazed  wistfully  at  the  red  golden  shield  of  the 
day-god  slowly  u[)rcari ng  its  wondrous  splen- 
dour above  the  pearl-hued  sky-line,  while  far 
and  near  the  great  i«hiin-()C(  an  lay  in  dim 
rc;pose,  soundless,  unmarked  by  motion  or 
shadow.  '  Ah  me,  how  tirrd  I  am  of  the 
sight  of  the  sun  !  Will  it  never  rain  again  } 
1  low  long  are  we  to  endure  this  endless  calm  ? 
this  bright,  dismal,  destructive  W(!ath(M-  ?  I 
never  realised  how  cruel  the  sun  could  be 
before.  As  a  chiltl  I  was  s(j  fond  of  him, 
too,  the  king  of  light  and  warmth,  of  joy  and 
gladness.  lUit  that  is  only  in  green-grass 
countries.       Here    he    is    a    pitiless    tyrant. 


II  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  37 

How  I  should  delight  in  Europe  to  be  sure, 
with  ever- changing  cloud  and  mist,  even 
storm  !  I  am  aweary,  aweary.  I  have  half 
a  mind  to  ride  out  and  meet  the  coach  at  Pine 
Ridge — I  feel  too  impatient  to  sit  in  the  house 
all  day.  What  a  time  I  have  been  standing 
here  talking  or  thinking  all  this  nonsense! 
I  wish  I  could  help  thinking  sometimes,  but 
I  cant  if  I  try  ever  so  hard.  Mother  says 
I  ought  to  employ  myself  more  ;  so  I  do,  till 
4  feel  half  dead  sometimes.  Then  I  get  a 
lazy  fit,  and  the  thinking,  and  restlessness, 
and  discontent  come  back  as  bad  as  ever. 
Heigho  !  I  suppose  I  must  go  and  dress  now. 
There's  no  fear  of  catching  cold  at  any  rate. 
Now  I  wonder  if  Wanderer  was  brought  in 
from  Myall  Creek  ? ' 

Acting  upon  this  sensible  resolution,  and 
apparently  much  interested  in  the  momentous 
question  of  her  favourite  hackney  having  been 
driven  in  from  a  distant  enclosure,  failure  of 
which  would  have  doomed  her  to  inaction, 
Pollie's  light  form  might  have  been  seen 
threading  the  garden  paths  ;  after  which  she 
even  ventured  as  far  as  the  great  range  of 
stabling  near  the   corner  of  the  other  farm 


38  THE  CROOKED  STICK  '  ciiAr. 

buildings.  Here  she  encountered  the  over- 
seer, Mr.  ( i.itcward,  when,  holdinf^  up  the 
skirts  ot  her  dress  so  as  to  avoid  contact  with 
the  somewhat  miscelhineous  dust  which  lay 
deeply  over  the  enclosure,  she  thus  addressed 
him — 

'Good-morning,  Mr.  Gateward  !  Do  you 
think  it  will  evir  rain  again  }  Never  mind 
answering  that  question.  Russell  himself 
knows  no  more  than  we  do,  I  believe.  What 
I  really  want  to  know  is,  did  they  bring 
Wanderer  in  from  the  Myall  deck  .-^  because 
1  ))n(sl  ride  him  to-day.' 

'Yes,  Miss  Pollie,  the  old  horse  cam(!  in. 
I  told  them  not  to  leave  him  behind  on  any 
account.  There's  no  knowing  what  may 
happen  in  a  dry  year.  W-ry  well  he  looks 
too,  considering.  \ Ou'll  lind  him  in  his  bo.x. 
We'll  .soon  have  him  lit  enough.  I  It- s  worth 
feeding  if  ever  a  horse:  was,  though  chaffs  as 
ilear  as  white  sugar.' 

'  I  should  think  h(;  was.  the  dear  oKl  fellow. 
1  kn(rw  you'd  look  after  him,  and  I  wasn't 
mistaken,  was  I  .-*  I  can  always  depend  on 
you.' 

'N'oii'll    iK-ver  want  a   horse,  or  an\lliiiig 


n  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  39 

else  you  fancy,  Miss  Pollie,  while  I'm  on 
Corindah,'  said  the  veteran  bushman,  looking 
tenderly  at  the  girl.  '  What  a  little  thing  you 
was,  too,  when  I  first  know'd  you  ;  and  what 
a  grand  girl  you've  grow'd  into!  I  hope  you'll 
be  as  happy  as  you  deserve.  You've  a  many 
friends,  but  none  of  'em  all  will  do  more  for 
you  than  poor  old  Joe  Gate  ward,  'cept  it 
might  be  Mr,  Atherstone.  That's  what  I'd 
like  to  see,  miss ' 

'  Never  mind  Mr.  Atherstone  ;  you're  all 
so  good  to  me,'  said  the  girl,  blushing,  as  she 
took  the  hard,  brown  hand  in  hers  and  pressed 
it  warmly  in  her  slender  palm.  '  I  feel  quite 
wicked  whenever  I  feel  discontented.  I 
ozight  to  be  the  happiest  girl  in  Australia. 
Perhaps  I  shall  be  when  I'm  older  and  wiser. 
And  now  I  must  run  in.  I  want  to  put  fresh 
flowers  on  the  breakfast-table  ;  but  I  must 
first  go  and  say  good-morning  to  dear  old 
Wanderer.' 

She  dashed  off  to  the  loose  box,  and  open- 
ing the  door,  gazed  with  sparkling  eyes  at 
the  good  horse  that  stood  there  munching 
his  morning  meal  of  chaff  and  maize  with  an 
appetite  sharpened   by  weeks  of  abstinence 


40  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 


from  anything  more  appetising  than  extremely 
dry  grass  and  attenuated  salt-bush. 

'Oh,  you  darling  old  pet!'  she  cried,  as 
she  walked  up  to  his  shoulder,  passing  her 
taper  fingers  over  his  velvety  face  and  smooth 
neck,  silken-skinneil  and  delicate  of  touch 
even  after  the  trials  of  so  hard  a  season. 
•  And  your  dear  old  legs  look  as  clean  as 
ever!  Was  it  starved  and  ill-treated  in  that 
nasty  bare  paddock  }  Never  mind,  there's  a 
load  of  corn  come  up.  I  know  who  11  have 
his  share  now,  however  the  rest  may  come 
off  Now  go  on  with  your  breakfast,  sir,  for 
I  must  get  mine,  and  we'll  have  a  lovely  gallop 
after  lunch.' 

'Ihe  grand  old  hai  kne-y,  nearly  thorough- 
bred, and  showing  high  caste  in  every  point, 
looketl  at  the  speaker  with  his  mild,  intelligent 
eyes,  and  lh<n  waving  his  head  to  and  fro,  as 
was  his  wont  when  at  all  excited,  betook 
himself  once  more  to  his  corn. 

The  day  wore  on  slowly,  wearily,  with  a 
dragging,  halting  march,  as  it  seemeil  lo  the 
impatient  maiden.  1  he  sim  rose  high  in  the 
hard  blue  sky,  and  glared,  as  was  his  wont, 
upon  the   limitless   pastures,   dry  and   ailust, 


II  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  41 

the  pale-hued,  melancholy  copses,  the  fast- 
falling  river,  the  forgotten  creeks.  The  birds 
were  silent ;  even  the  flies  held  truce  in  the 
darkened  rooms — there  was  a  death -like 
absence  of  sound  or  motion.  Hot,  breeze- 
less,  unutterably  lifeless,  and  for  all  less 
vigorous  natures  relaxing  and  depressing,  was 
the  atmosphere.  To  this  girl,  however,  had 
come  by  inheritance,  under  the  mysterious 
laws  of  heredity,  a  type  of  quenchless  energy, 
a  form  combining  the  old  Greek  attributes  of 
graceful  strength  and  divinely  dowered  in- 
tellect, impervious  alike,  as  were  her  anti- 
types, to  sun  and  shade,  to  fatigue  or  privation, 
to  climatic  influence  or  untoward  circumstance. 
'  Mother,'  she  said,  after  tossing  about 
from  sofa  to  chair,  from  carpet  to  footstool, 
the  while  the  elder  woman  sat  patiently  sew- 
ing as  if  the  family  fortunes  depended  upon 
the  due  adjustment  of 

Seam  and  gusset  and  band, 
Band  and  gusset  and  seam, 

'  1  must  go  and  put  on  my  riding-habit.  I 
shall  die  here,  I'm  certain,  if  I  stay  indoors 
much  longer.      1  feel  apoplexy  coming  on,  or 


42  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

lieart  disease.  I'm  sure.  Besides,  there  is  a 
l)reeze  always  outside,  or  we  can  make  one, 
Wanderer  and  I.  on  the  plain.' 

*  My  darling,  it's  surely  too  iiui  to  (;o  out 
yet,'  pleaded  the  mother. 

'lis  twice  as  hot  indoors,'  retorted  the 
wilful  damsel,  rising.  '  \'\\  ride  as  far  as  the 
Mogil  Mogil  clump ;  you  can  send  little 
rar[)ot  after  me  as  soon  as  he  gets  the  cows 
in.      But  a  gallop  I  must  have.' 

I'he  sun  was  declining  as  the  girl  rode  out 
of  the  paddock  gates,  but  no  hint  of  coolness 
had  as  yet  betokened  the  coming  eve.  The 
homestead  was  still  and  solitary  of  aspect,  as 
a  Me.xican  hacienda  at  the  hour  of  the  siesta, 
but  for  a  different  reason.  Hot  and  weari- 
some as  had  been  the  day,  every  man  about 
the  [>lace  had  been  hard  at  work  in  his  own 
proper  deparlmcni,  and  IkhI  been  so  occupied 
since  sunrise. 

In  Australia,  however  scorching  the  day, 
how  a[jparently  endless  and  dt.'solating  the 
summer,  no  man,  being  of  British  birth  or 
t;xtraclion,  thinks  of  intermitting  his  daily 
work  from  sunrisi:  to  nightfall,  c,\cej)t  during 
the  ordinarv  hours  allotted  lo  meals. 


11  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  43 

So  the  overseer  was  away  on  his  never- 
ending  round  of  inspection  of  stock — '  out  on 
the  run,'  as  the  phrase  is — to  return  at,  or 
perhaps  long  after,  nightfall.  The  boundary 
riders  were  each  and  all  on  their  different 
beats — some  at  the  wells ;  others  at  the  now 
treacherous  and  daily  more  dangerous  quag- 
mires surrounding  the  watering-places,  from 
which  it  was  their  duty  to  extricate  the  feeble 
sheep.  No  one  was  at  home  but  a  small 
native  boy  named  Tarpot,  with  whose  assist- 
ance Pollie  managed  to  saddle  her  loved  steed. 
Leaving  injunctions  with  him  to  follow  her  as 
soon  as  he  should  have  brought  up  the  cows, 
she  turned  her  horse's  head  to  the  broad  plain  ; 
and  as  he  snuffed  up  the  fresh  dry  air  and 
bounded  forward  in  a  stretching  gallop  along 
the  level  sandy  track,  the  heart  of  the  rider 
swelled  within  her,  and  she  wished  it  was  not 
unfeminine  to  shout  aloud  like  the  boy  stock- 
riders who  occasionally  favoured  the  musters 
of  Corindah  with  their  company. 

The  well-bred  animal  which  she  rode  was 
fully  inclined  to  sympathise  with  his  mistress's 
exhilaration.  Tossing  his  head  and  opening 
his  nostrils,  Wanderer  dashed  forward  along 


44  THE  CROOKED  STICK  c\\.\\\ 

the  far-stretchinq-  level  road,  just  sufficiently 
yielding  to  be  the  most  perfect  track  a  free 
horse  could  tread  at  speed,  as  if  he  were 
anxious  to  run  a  race  with  the  fabled  coursers 
of  ih.il  sun  now  slowly  trailing  blood -red 
banners  and  purple  raiment  towards  his 
western  couch.  Mile  after  mile  was  passed 
in  a  species  of  ecstatic  eagerness,  which  for 
steed  and  rider  seemed  to  know  no  abate- 
ment. The  homestead  faded  far  behind 
them,  and  still  nothing  met  the  view  but  the 
endless  grey  i)];iiii  ;  the  mirage  -  encircled 
lines  of  slender  woodland  opening  out  north 
and  south,  each  the  exact  counterpart  of  the 
other.  An  ever-widening,  apparently  illimit- 
able waste,  a  slowly  retreating  sun,  a  sky 
hopeless  in  unchanging,  pitiless  splendour  of 
hue,  looking  d(jwn  upon  a  despairing  world 
of  dying  creatures. 

'  The  Mogil  .Mogil  clump  is  a  short  ten 
miles,"  sh(;  said,  as  she  reined  her  iiii[)atient 
steed  and  compelled  him  to  walk.  '  1  mustn't 
send  along  the  poor  old  fellow  so  fast  ;  he's 
nottjuiu;  in  form  yet.  1  shall  be  there  belore 
llu:  coach  passes,  and  then  lia\c  plenty  of 
lime    to    riile    home    in    the    cool.      W  hat    a 


II  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  45 

blessed    relief    this    is    from    that    choking 
atmosphere  indoors ! ' 

Another  half -hour  and  the  clump  is 
reached.  Still  no  sign  of  the  stage-coach 
visible,  as  it  should  be  for  a  mile  or  two, 
even  more  on  that  billiard  table  of  a  plain. 
The  girl's  impatient  spirit  chafed  at  the  un- 
looked  for  delay.  As  she  gazed  upon  the 
red  sun,  the  far-seen  crimson  streamers,  the 
endless,  voiceless  plain,  the  spirit  of  rebellion 
was  again  roused  within  her.  She  sat  upon 
her  horse  and  looked  wistfully,  wearily  over 
the  arid  drought-stricken  levels.  She  marked 
the  sand  pillars,  whirling  and  eddying  in 
the  distance.  They  seemed  to  her  fanciful 
imagination  the  embodied  spirits  of  the 
waste — the  evil  genii  of  the  Eastern  tale, 
which  might  at  any  time,  unfolding,  disclose 
an  Afreet  or  a  Ghoul.  The  thought  of  long 
years  to  be  spent  amid  these  vast  solitudes 
seemed  to  her  hateful — doubly  unendurable. 
Before  her  rose  in  imagination  the  dull 
familiar  round  of  all  too  well  known  duties, 
occupations,  tasks,  and  pleasures,  or  but 
feeble,  pulseless  alternations  from  the  mill- 
horse  track  which  people  call  duty. 


46  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

'  Was  I  born  only  for  such  a  fate  ? '  she 
passionately  exclaimed.  '  Is  it  possible  that 
the  great  Creator  of  all  things,  the  Lord  and 
Giver  of  Life,  made  this  complex,  eaq^er 
nature  of  mine  to  wear  itself  out  w  iih  aim- 
less automatic  movements,  or  frantic  struggles 
against  the  prison  bars  of  fate  }  Oh  !  had 
my  father  not  been  cut  off  in  his  prime,  in 
what  a  different  position  we  should  have 
been  !  We  could  have  afforded  to  travel  in 
h'uroj:)*'.  to  revel  in  the  glories  of  art.  science, 
and  litcralLirc.  to  look  upon  the  theatres  of 
the  great  deetls  of  mankind — to  /ivi\  in  a 
word.     We  do  not  live  in  Corindah — W(;  grow,' 

(Overcome  by  the  emotions  which  the 
enthusiasm  of  her  nature  had  suffered  tempor- 
arily to  overwhelm  her  ordinary  iiudligence, 
sh(.'  had  not  noticed  that  th(;  stage-coach, 
bringing  its  bi-weekly  freight  of  letters,  news- 
j)apers,  and  passengers,  had  approached  the 
(  himj)  of  wild  orange  trees,  on  the  edge  of 
which  she  had  reined  her  steed,  'i'he  sensi- 
tive thorough-bred,  more  alive  to  transitory 
impressions  than  his  mistress,  aroused  by  a 
sutldcn  crack  of  the  driver's  whip,  si.irted. 
and  as  she  drew  the  mrb  rein,  reared. 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  47 


'  What  a  naughty  Wanderer ! '  she  ex- 
claimed, as,  slackening  her  rein,  she  leaned  a 
little  forward,  stroking  her  horse's  glossy 
neck,  and  soothing  him  with  practised 
address.  At  the  same  moment  the  four- 
horse  team  swept  past  the  spot,  and  revealed 
the  unwonted  apparition  to  the  gaze  of  the 
passengers,  male  and  female,  who,  from  the 
fixed  attention  they  appeared  to  bestow  upon 
her,  were  much  interested  in  the  situation. 
Apparently  the  young  lady  was  not  equally 
gratified,  inasmuch  as  she  turned  her  horse's 
head  towards  the  distant  line  of  timber  which 
marked  the  line  of  the  homestead,  and  swept 
across  the  plain  like  the  daughter  of  a  sheikh 
of  the  Nejd. 

'  What  a  handsome  girl ! '  said  a  passenger 
on  the  box-seat ;  '  deuced  fine  horse  too — good 
across  country,  I  should  say.  Not  a  bush- 
ranger, I  suppose,  driver?  They  don't  get 
themselves  up  like  that,  eh  1 ' 

'That's  Miss  Devereux  of  Corindah,' 
answered  the  driver,  in  a  hushed,  respectful 
accent,  as  who  should  say  to  the  irreverent 
querist  in  Britain,  '  That's  the  squire's 
daughter.'     'She    came    up    here    to    see    if 


48  THH  CROOK  111)  SUCK  chap. 

the  coach  was  coming ;  we're  past  our  time, 
nearly  half  an  hour.  Got  thinking.  I  suppose, 
and  didn't  know  we  was  so  close.  I  cracked 
my  whip  just  to  let  her  know  like.' 

'  luit  suppose  her  horse  had  thrown  her,' 
asked  the  inquiring  stranger,  '  what  then  '^.  ' 

'  Beggin'  your  pardon,  sir,  there's  mighty 
few  horses  that  can  do  that — not  in  these 
parts  anyway.  She  can  ride  anything  that 
you  can  lilt  her  on  ;  and  she's  as  kind- 
hearted  and  well  respected  a  young  lady 
as  ev^er  touched  bridle-rein.' 

Now  ever  since  Corindah  had  been  '  taken 
up '  in  the  good  old  days  when  occupation 
with  stock  and  the  payment  of  ^lo  per 
annum  as  license  fee  were  th(!  only  obli- 
gatory conditions  encumlxrinLT  th(;  sovereign 
right  In  use,  say,  half  a  million  acres  of 
pastoral  land,  the  adjoining  '  run  '  of  Maroobil 
and  its  proprietors  had  been  associated  in 
men's  minds  among  the  (loaling  poj)ulalion  of 
the  district. 

I»olh  had  been  'taken  up.'  or  legally 
occupied,  the  same  year.  The  homesteads 
were  at  no  great  distance  from  (.'ach  other, 
so   j)laced    with    the   view    lo  being   nuituallv 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION 


49 


handy  in  case  of  a  sudden  call  to  arms  when 
the  blacks  were  'bad.'  More  than  once  on 
either  side  the  '  fiery  cross  '  had  been  sent 
forth,  when  every  available  horse  and  man, 
gun  and  pistol,  of  the  summoned  station  had 
been  furnished. 

Old  Mr.  Atherstone,  a  Border  English- 
man, had  died  soon  after  Brian  Devereux, 
leaving  his  son  Harold,  then  a  grave  boy  of 
twelve,  precociously  wise  and  practical  as  to 
the  management  of  stock,  and  a  great  favourite 
with  Pollie,  then  a  tiny  fairy  of  three  years 
old,  who  used  to  throw  up  her  hands  and 
shout  for  joy  when  Harold's  pony  came  gallop- 
ing up  to  the  garden  gate.  He  had  watched 
the  child  grow  into  a  tall  slip  of  a  girl,  with 
masses  of  bright  hair,  never  very  neatly 
braided.  He  had  seen  the  unformed  girl 
ripen  into  a  beautiful  maiden,  an  enchanting 
mixture  to  his  eye  of  much  of  the  old  daring, 
wilful  nature  mingled  with  a  sweet  womanly 
consciousness  inexpressibly  attractive.  He 
could  hardly  recollect  the  time  when  he  had 
not  been  in  love  with  Pollie  Devereux.  And 
now,  in  these  latter  years,  he  told  himself 
that    there    was    but    one    woman    in    the 

E 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


world   for  him     nor  coultl   it  ever  be  other- 
wise. 

Men  varied  much  in  their  dispositions. 
He  knew  that  by  observation  and  experience. 
There  was  Bob  Liverstone,  whose  heart  (as 
he  himself  repeatedly  averred)  was  broken 
beyond  recovery,  his  prospects  of  happiness 
eternally  mined,  his  life  blasted,  because  of 
the  beautiful  .Miss  Wharton,  with  her  pale 
face,  raven  hair,  and  haunliuL^  eyes,  who 
wouldn't  have  him.  1  le  broke  his  heart  over 
again  shamelessly  within  si.x  months,  after 
unsuccessful  devotion  to  a  blonde  with  eyes 
like  IjIuc  china  ;  and  finally  marrird  a  latly 
who  bore  not  the  least  rt^semblance  in  mind, 
body,  or  estate  to  either  ol  her  predecessors 
beinj.^  plumi),  and  merely  pretty,  but  e.\- 
ceptionally  well  dowered. 

These  and  similar  diva^^ations  of  the  ardent 
male  adult  Harold  had  seen  —  seen  with 
alarm  and  suri)risc  priinaril\-,  then  with 
amused  assent,  bur  himself  he  could  as  little 
conceive  such  oscillations  in  his  own  tastes 
and  affections  as  he  could  fancy  him.self 
emulaiin}^  the  som<rsaults  of  an  acnjbat  or 
ihe  witticisms  of  a  clown.      No!    thrice  no! 


11  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  51 

For  a  man  of  his  deep,  dreamy,  passionate, 
perhaps  originally  melancholy,  nature  there 
was  but  one  sequel  possible  after  the  deliberate 
choice  of  youth  had  been  ratified  by  the  calm 
reason  of  manhood.  If  fate  denied  him  this 
happiness,  all  too  perfect  for  this  world — the 
unearthly,  unutterable  bliss  which  her  love 
would  confer — there  should  be  no  counterfeit 
presentment,  no  mocking  travesty  of  the 
heart's  lost  illusions.  He  had  rightly  judged 
that  as  yet  the  girl's  feeling  for  him  was  that 
of  a  pure  and  deep  friendship,  but  of  friend- 
ship only.  The  love  of  a  sister,  unselfish, 
sinless,  seraphic,  not  the  fiercer  passion  akin 
to  hate,  despair,  revenge  in  its  inverted  forces, 
bearing  along  with  it  the  choicest  fruits  that 
mortal  hands  can  cull,  yet  joined  in  unholy 
joy,  in  perverted  triumph  to  the  groans  of  the 
eternally  lost,  to  the  endless  torment,  the 
dread  despair  of  the  prison  vaults  beneath. 

Thus  Harold  Atherstone  watched  and 
waited — awaited  the  perhaps  fortunate  turn 
of  events,  the  effect  of  the  moral  suasion 
which  he  knew  Mrs.  Devereux  gently  exer- 
cised. And  she  had  told  him  that  he  was  the 
one  man  to  whom  in  fullest  trust  and  con- 


52  THE  CROOKED  STJCK  ciiai-. 

fidence  she  could  bequcMth  her  darling,  were 
she  compelled  to  leave  her. 

'But  you  must  wait,  Harold,'  she  said. 
'  My  child's  nature  is  one  neither  to  be  con- 
trolled nor  easily  satisfied.  I  can  trace  her 
father's  tameless  soul  in  her.  Poor  Pollie ! 
it's  a  lh(jusand  [)ities  thai  she  was  not  born  a 
boy,  as  she  says  herself.  How  much  easier 
life  would  have  been  for  her — and  for  me! 
Here  Mrs.  Devereux  siijhed. 

O 

•All  very  well,  my  dear  Mrs.  Devereu.x, 
hut  in  lh('  meantime  nature  chose  to  mould 
her  in  the  form  of  a  beautiful  woman,  so 
sweet  and  lovely  in  my  eyes  that  I  have 
never  seen  her  ecjual,  and  indeed  hardly 
imagined  such  a  creation.  .She  will  pass 
through  the  unsettled  time  of  girlhood  in 
another  year  or  two,  and  after  that  take  pity 
upon  her  hiilhful  slave  and  worshipper,  who 
has  adored  her  all  his  life  and  who  will  die  in 
the  .same  faith.' 

'That  is  the  worst  feature  in  your  case, 
my  p(j(jr  I  larold,'  said  Mrs.  1  )evereu.\  ;  '  I  am 
as  fond  of  you  as  if  you  were  my  own  son, 
and  she  loves  you  likt-  a  brother.  \'ou  have 
seen    too    much    of   each    other.       WOmen's 


II  OR  POLUE'S  PROBATION  53 

fancies  are  caught  by  the  unknown,  the  un- 
famihar :  we  are  all  alike.  I  wish  I  could 
help  you,  or  bend  her  to  my  wish  like  another 
girl,  for  I  know  how  happy  she  would  be. 
But  she  cannot  be  guided  in  the  disposition 
of  her  affections.' 

'And  I  should  not  wish  it,'  said  the  young 
man,  as  his  face  grew  hard.  '  No,  though  I 
should  die  of  the  loss  of  her.' 

The  contract  time  of  the  Wannonbah  mail 
was  indulgent.  The  driver  had  no  particular 
reason  to  reach  that  somewhat  prosaic  and 
monotoned  village  before  the  stated  hour. 
When  Wanderer  slackened  speed  a  mile  on 
the  hither  side  of  the  Corindah  gate,  it  was 
with  some  surprise  that  Pollie  descried  a 
strange  four-in-hand  converging  from  another 
point.  Wanderer  pricked  up  his  ears,  while 
his  rider  looked  eagerly  across  the  plain  with 
the  intense,  far-searching  gaze  of  a  dweller  in 
the  desert,  as  if  she  had  power  to  read,  even 
at  that  distance,  each  sign  and  symbol  of  the 
equipage. 

'  Can't  be  a  coach,  surely,'  she  soliloquised. 
'One  mail  is  more  than  enough  for  all  our 


54  TIIR  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

wants  in  the  letter  and  passenger  way.  Cobb 
and  Co.  grumble  at  feeding  their  teams  now, 
poor  things  !  Who  in  the  world  is  likely  to 
drive  four  horses  in  a  season  like  this  ?  No 
one  but  a  lunatic,  I  should  think.  Such  well- 
bred  (Mies  too  !  1  can  sec  the  leaders  tossing 
their  heads — a  grey  and  a  bay.  I  can't  make 
out  the  wheelers  for  the  dust.  No !  Yes ! 
Now  I  know  who  it  is.  Oh,  what  fun !  I 
beg  his  pardon.  Of  course  it's  Jack  Charteris. 
He  said  he  was  going  to  town.  Poor  Jack! 
I  wish  I  was  Sfoinir  wiih  him.  Init  that  lijon  t 
do.  1  should  like  to  go  and  meet  him,  only 
then  he  would  make  sure  I  was  interested  in 
him.  What  a  misfortune  it  is  to  be  a  girl ! 
Now  I  must  go  in  and  dress  for  the  evening, 
and  receive  him  properly,  which  means 
unnaturally  and  artificially.  Come  along. 
Wanderer ! ' 

When  Mr.  Jack  Charteris  swept  artistic- 
ally and  accurately  through  the  entrance  gate 
and  drew  up  before  the  .stable  range  with  a 
fi.xed  e.xpectation  that  some  one  might  see  and 
admire  him,  he  was  disappointed  to  ob.serve 
no  one  I'lii  Mr.  (ialfward  and  a  Mack  boy. 
To  them   ii   was  Icli   to   pcrlorni    ihe   7'olc  of 


II  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  55 

spectators,  audience,  and  sympathisers  gener- 
ally. 

'Why,  Gate  ward,  old  man,  what's  the 
meaning  of  this  ? '  said  the  charioteer,  sign- 
ing to  his  own  black  urchin  to  jump  down. 
'  Are  you  and  Tarpot  all  the  men  left 
alive  on  Corindah  ?  Sad  effects  of  a  dry 
season  and  overstocking,  eh  ?  No  rouse- 
abouts,  no  boundary  riders,  no  new  chums,  no 
nobody?  Family  gone  away  too  ?  I'm  not 
going  to  ruin  you  in  the  forage  line  either. 
Brought  my  own  feed — plenty  of  corn  and 
chaff  inside  the  drag.  Don't  intend  to  eat  my 
friends  out  of  house  and  home  this  beastly 
season.' 

By  this  time  Mr.  Gateward  and  the  black 
boys  had  applied  themselves  with  a  will  to 
the  unharnessing  of  the  team,  so  that  the 
new-comer,  who  had  uttered  the  preceding 
remarks,  exclamations,  and  inquiries  in  a  loud, 
cheerful,  confident  manner,  threw  down  his 
reins  and  descended  from  his  seat  without 
more  ado. 

Here  he  stood  with  his  hands  in  his 
pockets,  watching  the  taking  out  of  his 
horses,  a   well-bred,  well-matched,  and   well- 


56  THE  CROOKED  STICK  cmai-. 

conditioned  team,  never  intermitting  a  flow 
of  badinaL^c  and  small-talk  which  seemed  to 
proceed  from  him  without  effort  and  fore- 
thoLicjht. 

'Now  then,  Jerry,  you  put  'em  tliat  one 
harness  along  a  peg,  two  feller  leader  close 
up,  then  two  feller  poler.  Tie  'em  up  long  a 
post,  that  one  yarraman,  bimeby  get  'um  cool, 
baal  gibit  water,  else  that  one  die.  You  put 
'em  feed  along  a  manger  all  ready.  Mine 
come  out   bimeby.' 

'  I'll  see  after  'cm,  l\Tr.  Charteris,  don't 
you  bother  yourself,'  said  the  overseer  good- 
naturedly.  *  Tarpot,  you  take  'em  saddle-box 
belong  a  mahmee  inside  barracks.  He'll 
show  you,  sir, — you  know  where  the  bath- 
room is.  There's  water  iIhtc,  though  we  are 
pretty  short.' 

'  1  )euccd  glad  to  hiar  it.  The  dust's 
inside  mv  skin  like  the  wool  bales  last 
summiM'.  Must  be  half  an  iiuh  of  it  somc- 
wher(!.  \\v  been  lixiiig  in  it  all  day. 
l*"rightful  season  '  I'm  just  going  down  lo  file 
my  schedule — fact — unless  my  Ijanker  takes  a 
good-natun.'d  fit.  Can't  stand  it  imu  Ii  longer. 
Ladies     well?      Mrs.      1  )evereu.\     and      Miss 


II  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  57 

Pollie  ?  Not  got  fever,  or  cholera,  or  con- 
sumption this  God-forsaken  summer  ? ' 

The  grave  bushman  smiled.  '  I  doubt  we 
shall  all  have  to  go  up  King  Street  when  jj/^*?/ 
give  in,  Mr.  Charteris !  You  can  work  it 
somehow  or  other,  whoever  goes  under. 
Besides,  rain  ain't  far  off;  can't  be  now. 
The  ladies  are  all  right,  and  a  little  cheering 
up  won't  hurt  'em.  Miss  Pollie  was  out  for  a 
gallop  just  before  you  came  up.' 

'  Then  it  was  her  I  saw,'  said  the  young- 
man  petulantly.  '  Knocked  smoke  out  of 
the  team  to  catch  her  up,  and  missed  her 
after  all.' 

Mr.  Jack  Charteris,  of  Monda,  was  a  young 
squatter  who  lived  about  a  hundred  miles  to 
the  west  of  Corindah,  where  he  had  a  large 
and  valuable  station,  a  good  deal  diminished 
as  to  profits  by  the  present  untoward  season. 
He  was  of  a  sanguine,  intrepid,  rather 
speculative  disposition,  having  investments 
in  new  country  as  well.  People  said  he  had 
too  many  irons  in  the  fire,  and  would 
probably  be  ruined  unless  times  changed. 
But  more  observant  critics  asserted  that 
under    careless    speech     and     manner    Jack 


58  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiAf. 

Charteris  masked  a  cool  head  and  calculating 
brain ;  that  he  was  not  more  likely  to  go 
wrong  than  his  neighbours — in  fact,  less  so, 
being  of  uncommon  energy  and  quite  inex- 
haustible resource.  With  any  decent  odds  he 
was  a  safe  horse  to  back  lo  land  a  big  stake. 

Vox  the  rest  he  was  a  good-looking, athletic, 
cheery  young  fellow,  in  general  favour  and 
acceptation  with  ladies,  having  a  great  fund 
of  good  s[)irits  and  an  unfailing  supply  of 
conversation,  that  most  of  his  feminine 
acquaintances  found  agreeable,  lie  was  not 
easily  daunted,  and  added  liie  (jualities  of 
perseverance  and  a  fi.xed  belief  in  his  per- 
suasive powers  to  the  list  of  his  good  (jualities. 

The  past  masters  in  the  science  of  con(]uest 
aver  that  the  chief  secret  of  fascination  lies  in 
the  power  to  ainus(;  the  too  oflcMi  vacant  and 
distraite  feminine  mind.  Women  suffer,  it  is 
asserted,  more  from  tlulness  and  ennui  than 
from  all  other  .sourctrs,  injuries  and  ilisabililies 
put  lf)g(lher.  Consider,  then,  at  wiiat  an  enor- 
mous advantage  he  commences  the  siege  who 
is  able  to  surprise,  to  inlcnsi,  lociucri.iiii  ihe 
emotional,  laughter-loving  garrison,  so  often 
in  the  dcjldrums,  so  imliffereiitb-  able  to  fill  up 


II  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  59 

the  lingering  hours.  It  is  not  the  'rare  smile' 
which  lights  up  the  features  of  the  dark  and 
melancholy  hero  of  the  Byronic  novelists 
which  is  so  irresistible.  Much  more  danger- 
ous is  the  jolly,  nonsensical,  low-comedy 
person,  in  whose  jokes  the  superior,  the 
gifted  rival  can  see  no  wit,  indeed  but  little 
fun.  Thackeray  is  true  to  life  when  he 
makes  Miss  Fotheringay  unbend  to  Foker's 
harmless  mirth,  rewarding  him  with  a  make- 
believe  box  on  the  ear,  while  Pen,  the 
sombre  and  dramatic,  stands  sulkily  aloof 

This  being  an  axiomatic  truth,  Mr. 
Charteris  should  have  had,  to  use  his  own 
idiom,  a  considerable  '  pull '  in  commending 
himself  to  the  good  graces  of  Miss  Devereux, 
being  one  of  those  people  to  whom  women 
always  listened,  and  never  without  being 
more  or  less  amused.  But  though  he  would 
hardly  have  sighed  in  vain  at  the  feet  of  any 
of  the  demoiselles  of  the  day,  rural  or  metro- 
politan, he  found  this  particular  princess  upon 
whom  he  had  perversely  set  his  heart, 
unapproachable  within  a  certain  clearly 
defined  limit. 

Not  that  she  did    not    like    him,  respect, 


6o  THE  CROOKED  STICK  <-iiai'.  ii 

admire,  even  in  certain  ways  to  the  extent  of 
fightin*^  his  battles  when  absent,  praising  up 
his  good  (jualities,  dehcately  advising  him  for 
iiis  good,  laughing  heartily  at  his  good  stories 
and  running  fire  of  jests  and  audacious  com- 
pliments. That  made  it  so  hard  to  bear. 
The  very  fearlessness  and  perfect  can- 
dour of  her  nature  forbade  him  to  hope 
that  any  softer  feeling  lay  underneath  the 
frankly  expressed  liking,  and  a  natural  dignity 
which  never  quitted  her  restrained  him  from 
urging  his  suit  more  decisi\ely. 


CHAPTER    III 

When  Mr.  Charteris  had  concluded  his 
ablutions,  and  sauntered  into  the  verandah 
after  a  careful  toilette,  he  there  encountered 
Miss  Devereux,  who,  having  arrayed  herself 
in  a  light  Indian  muslin  dress,  gracefully 
reclined  upon  one  of  the  Cingalese  couches. 
His  lonely  life  of  late  may  have  had  some- 
thing to  do  with  it,  but  his  ordinary  well- 
maintained  equilibrium  nearly  failed  him 
before  the  resistless  force  of  her  charms. 

Her  eyes  involuntarily  brightened  as  she 
partly  raised  herself  from  the  couch  and 
held  out  her  hand  with  unaffected  welcome. 
He  took  in  at  one  rapturous  glance  her 
slender  yet  wondrously  moulded  form,  her 
delicate  hand,  her  rounded  arm  seen  through 
the  diaphanous  fabric,  her  massed  and  shin- 
ing hair,  her  eloquent  face. 


62  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiai>. 

'Oh,  Lord!*  he  inwardly  ejaculated,  as 
he  afterwards  confessed.  '  I  used  to  wonder 
at  fellows  shootinir  themselves  about  a  ki\x\, 
and  all  that,  and  lau^^h  at  the  idea.  But 
I  don't  now.  When  I  saw  PoUie  Devereux 
that  evening  I  could  have  done  the 
maddest  thing  in  the  world  for  the  ghost 
of  a  chance  of  winning  her.  And  to  win, 
and  wear,  and  lose  her  again,  as  happens 
to  a  man  here  and  there.  Good  heavens ' 
why,  it  would  make  a  fellow — make — me 
— run  amuck  like  a  Malay,  ami  kill  a 
town  full  of  people  before  I  was  half 
satisfied.' 

But  Mr.  Charleris  contrt)lled  those  too 
impetuous  feelings,  and  forced  himself  to 
remark,  as  he  clasped  her  cool,  soft  hand 
despairingly  whik;  she  e.xpressed  Ik  r  frank 
pleasure  at  seeing  him.  '  Always  tlelighted 
to  come  to  Corindah,  Miss  I  )evereu.\,  you 
know  that.  Didn't  1  see  you  near  the  gate 
as  I  drove  up  ?  Thought  you  might  have 
come  to  meet  me.' 

'Well,  so  i  would,'  the  young  lady 
answered,  with  an  air  of  provoking  candour, 
'only  I    had    be-en    owl  to  see   the  coach  and 


Ill  OR  POLLIFJS  PROBATION  63 

find  out  if  they'd  brought  our  package  from 
England — presents  that  came  by  last  mail, 
— I  was  so  hot  and  dusty,  and  thought  it 
was  time  to  go  and  dress.' 

*  And  I  wanted  to  see  how  Wanderer 
looked,  too,'  quoth  he  reproachfully;  'you 
know  I  always  think  he  could  win  the 
steeplechase  at  Bourke  if  you'd  let  me  ride 
him  and  wear  your  colours.' 

'  I  couldn't  think  of  that  for  two  reasons,' 
replied  the  girl  with  decision.  '  First  of 
all  Wanderer  might  get  hurt.  Didn't  you 
see  that  poor  Welcome,  at  Wannonbah  races, 
broke  his  leg  and  had  to  be  shot  1  I  should 
die,  or  go  into  a  decline,  if  anything 
happened  to  Wanderer.  And  then  there's 
another  reason.' 

'What's  that?'  inquired  Mr.  Charteris, 
with  less  than  his  usual  intrepidity. 

'Why  —  a — yo2L  might  get  hurt,  Mr. 
Charteris,  you  see,  and  I  can't  afford  to  lose 
an  old  friend  that  way.' 

'  Oh,  is  that  all  }  '  retorted  Master  Jack, 
recovering  his  audacity;  'well,  you  could 
have  me  shot  like  Wanderer  if  I  broke  my 
back  or  anything.      'Pon  my  soul !  it  would 


64  THE  CROOKED  STICK  cuai-. 

come  to  just  the  same  thinii^  if  you  ordered 
mc  out  to  execution  before  the  race.' 

'Now,  Mr.  Charteris  ! '  said  Pollie,  in  a 
steady,  w.irnini^  voice,  '  you  are  disobeying 
orders,  you  know.  I  sliall  hand  \\)U  over 
to  mother,  who  has  just  come  to  say  tea 
is  ready.  Mother,  he  is  talkin^^  most  child- 
ish nonsense  about  shooting  himself.' 

'  Hut  I  never  talk  anything  else,  do  I 
Mrs.  I  )evereu.\  ?  '  said  the  young  gentleman, 
running  up  to  the  kindly  matron  with  a  look 
of  sincere  affection.  '  \'our  molhcr's  known 
me  all  my  life,  Miss  Devereu.x,  and  she 
won't  believe  any  harm  of  me.  Will  you, 
my  dear  madam  ?  ' 

'  I  never  lu^ar  ol  you  doiiiQ-  any  foolish 
thing,  my  dear  jack,'  said  Mrs.  1  )(.'\-ereux 
maternally  ;  '  and  as  long  as  that  is  the  case 
1  shall  not  be  very  angry  at  anything  you 
can  say.  We  all  know  you  mean  no  harm. 
Don't  we,  I'ollie  .-*  .And  now  take  me  into 
tea,  and  you  may  amuse  us  as  much  as  ever 
you  like.  I'm  rather  K'W  nuself  on  account 
of  the  sea.son.' 

'No  use  thinking  about  it,'  (juoih 
Charteris,  dashing  gall.uuly  into  the  position 


Ill  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  65 

assigned  to  him.  'That's  why  I'm  going 
to  Sydney  to  have  a  regular  carnival,  also 
to  be  in  time  to  get  the  wires  to  work 
directly  the  drought  breaks  up.  I  can't 
make  it  rain,  now  can  I  ?  And  I've  a 
regular  tough,  steady  overseer,  a  sort  of 
first  cousin  to  your  Joe  Gateward,  with 
twice  as  much  sense  and  work  in  him  as  I 
have.  I  mean  to  take  it  easy  at  the  Club 
till  he  wires  me:  "Drought  over.  Six 
inches  rain."  Left  the  telegram  all  ready 
written  and  pinned  up  over  his  desk.  He's 
nothing  to  do  but  fill  in  the  number  of  inches 
and  sign  it,  and  I  shall  know  what  to  do. 
That  shows  faith,  doesn't  it  ?  ' 

'  But  isn't  it  rather  mad  to  go  to  Sydney 
with  a  four-in-hand  and  spend  money,  when 
you  might  be  ruined,  and  all  of  us?'  said 
Pollie. 

'  You  are  too  prudent  but  don't  look 
ahead — like  most  women,  my  dear  young 
lady,'  replied  Jack,  in  the  tone  of  experienced 
wisdom.  '  Nothing  like  having  a  logical 
mind,  which,  I  flatter  myself,  I  possess.  I 
always  think  the  situation  out,  as  thus  : — If 
we  are  all  going  to  be  ruined — the  odds  are 


66  THE  CROOKED  STICK  cuAr. 

ag^ainst  it,  but  still  it's  on  the  cards — why 
not  have  a  real  first-class  time  of  enjoyment 
before  the  L,^rand  smash  ?  The  trifling  ex- 
penditure of  a  qrood  spree  won't  make  any 
appreciable  difference  in  the  universal  bank- 
ruptcy. You  grant  me  that,  don't  you  ? 
— Yes,  thanks,  I  will  take  some  more  wild 
turkey.  Strange  that  one  should  have  any 
appetite  this  weather,  isn't  it?' 

'  Xot  if  one  rick^s  or  drives  all  day  and 
half  the  night,  as  you  do,  Mr.  Charleris.'  said 
Pollie.  '  Mven  talking  makes  you  thirsty, 
doesn't  it  ?     P)Ut  go  on  with  the  logic' 

'  Did  yuu  ever  see  me  scowl,  Miss  Pollie  .-^ 
Beware  of  my  ferocious  mood.  Now  we're 
agreed  about  this,  that  five  hundred  pounds, 
more  or  less,  mak(;s  no  difference  if  you're 
going  lo  !)('  ruined  and  lose  fifty  thousand.' 

'  I  suppose  not,'  reluctantly  assented  Mrs. 
Devereux.      'Still  it's  money  wasted.' 

'Money  wasted!'  exclaimed  Mr.  Char- 
t(!ris.  '  I'm  surprised  at  you,  Mrs.  Devereux. 
Think  of  the  delights  of  yachting  in  the 
harbour,  of  ihi;  ocean  breeze  aficr  this 
vajKJur  from  the  pit  of — of — Avernus.  Knew 
I  should  find  it  in  tim(.'.      Then   the  (vcning 


Ill  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  67 

parties,  the  dinners  at  the  Club,  the  races, 
the  lawn-tennis,  the  cricket  matches !  The 
English  eleven  are  to  be  there.  Why,  I 
haven't  been  down  for  six  whole  months. 
Don't  you  think  rational  amusement  worth 
all  the  money  you  can  pay  for  it  ?  Would 
you  think  a  couple  of  years'  ramble  on  the 
Continent  too  dearly  bought  if  we  were  all 
able  to  afford  to  go  together  ? ' 

The  girl's  eyes  began  to  glow  at  this. 
'  Oh  mother ! '  she  said,  '  surely  we  shall  be 
able  to  go  some  day.  Do  you  think  this 
horrid  drought  will  stop  the  possibility  of  it 
altogether.'^  If  I  was  sure  of  that  I  believe 
I  should  drown  myself — no,  I  couldn't  do 
that;  but  I  would  burn  myself  in  a  bush  fire. 
That's  a  proper  Australian  notion  of  suicide. 
Water's  too  scarce  and  expensive.  Think  of 
the  consequences  if  I  spoiled  a  tank.  I 
should  like  to  see  Mr.  Gateward's  face.' 

And  here  the  wilful  damsel,  having  at 
first  smiled  at  the  alarmed  expression  of 
her  mother's  countenance,  abandoned  her- 
self to  childish  merriment  at  the  ludicrous 
idea  of  a  drowned  maiden  in  a  bad  season 
intensifying  the   bitterness   in   the   minds   of 


68  THE  CROOKED  STICK 


economical  pastoralists  with  the  rctlection 
that  a  tlock  of  sheep  would  probably  be 
deprived  thereby  of  that  hi_i;h-priced  luxury 
in  a  dry  country — a  sufficiency  ot  water, 

Mr.  Charteris  laughed  heartily  for  a  few 
minutes,  and  then,  with  sudden  solemnity, 
turned  upon  the  younc^  lady.  '  You  never 
will  be  serious,  you  know.  Why  can't  you 
take  pattern  by  me?  Let  us  pursue  our 
argument.  Pleasure  beini;-  worth  its  price, 
let  us  pay  it  cheerfully.  I  was  reading 
about  the  Three  Hundred,  those  Greek 
f(;llows  you  know,  dressing  their  hair  before 
Thermopylae ;  it  gave  me  the  idea,  I  think. 
Mine's  too  short ' — here  he  rubbed  his  glossy 
brown  pate,  canonically  cropped.  '  But  the 
principle's  the  same.  Miss  Pollie,  eh?' 

'  What  principle  ?  '  echoed  Pollie,  '  or  want 
of  it.  do  you  mean  ? ' 

'  The  principle  of  dying  game,  Miss 
Devcreux,'  returned  Charteris,  with  a  steady 
eye  and  heroic  pose.  '  Sun-ly  you  can 
respect  that?  It  all  resolves  itsilf  into  this. 
I'm  going  to  put  down  my  ace.  It  liic  cards 
go  wrong  I  have  j^layed  a  dashing  game. 
If  the  season   turns  up  trumps  ill  make  the 


Ill  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  69 

odd  trick.  You'll  see  who  has  the  cream  of 
the  store  sheep -market  when  the  drought 
breaks  ! ' 

'  I  admire  bold  play,  and  you  have  my 
best  wishes,  Mr.  Charteris.  You've  ex- 
plained everything  so  clearly.  Don't  you 
think  if  you  read  history  a  little  more  it 
might  lead  you  to  still  more  brilliant 
combinations  ? ' 

'  If  you'd  only  encourage  me  a  little,' 
answered  the  young  man,  with  a  touch  of 
unusual  humility. 

'  Isn't  that  Jack  Charteris  ?'  said  a  man's 
voice  in  the  passage.  '  I'll  swear  I  Jieard 
him  talking  about  his  ace.  May  I  come  in, 
or  is  there  a  family  council  or  anything  ? ' 

'  Come  in,  Harold,  and  don't  be  a  goose,' 
said  Mrs.  Devereux  ;  '  you  are  not  going  to 
stand  on  ceremony  here  at  this  or  any  other 
time.' 

'  I've  had  a  longish  ride,'  said  the  voice, 
'  nothing  to  eat,  half  a  sunstroke,  I  believe, 
and  my  journey  for  my  pains.  I'm  late  for 
tea  besides,  though  I  rode  hard — takes  one 
so  long  to  dress.  If  I  was  any  one  else  I 
believe    I    should   be   cross.       I    thifik   you'd 


70 


THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 


better  all  leave  me,  and  I'll  join  you  in  the  ver- 
andah when  I've  fed  and  found  my  temper.' 

'  Nothing  of  the  sort,  moilicr  ;  you  take 
out  Mr.  Charteris  and  give  him  good  advice, 
while  I  see  after  Mr.  Atherstone,  and  recom- 
mend him  to  begin  with  the  wild  turkey 
while  I  get  him  some  Hukkulla.  What's  the 
reason  you've  not  been  near  us  lately,  sir?' 

The  new-comer  was  a  very  tall  man, 
though  he  did  not  at  first  sight  give  you  the 
idea  of  being  much  above  the  middle  size, 
but  -Mr.  Charteris,  who  was  by  no  means 
short,  looked  so  when  they  stood  together. 
Then  you  saw  that  he  was  much  above  the 
ordinary  stature  of  mankind.  His  frame 
was  broad  and  muscular,  and  there  was  an 
air  of  lauiu  power  about  his  bearing  such 
as  gave  the  impression  of  perfect  confidence, 
of  physical  or  mental  equality  to  whatever 
emergency  might  befall. 

Mr.  Charteris  lingered,  and  seemed  to 
question  the  soundness  ol  tlie  arrangcnu;nt 
which  (livid<(l  him  from  ilie  enchantress  and 
reduc(rd  liiin  lo  the  placid  eiijoynieiu  of  Mrs. 
Devereux's  always  sensible  but  not  ex(  iiing 
conversation. 


Ill  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  71 

'  Look  here,  Jack,  I  can't  have  you  here 
while  I'm  dining,  you  know,'  persisted  Mr. 
Atherstone,  with  a  calm  decision.  '  You've 
such  an  energetic,  highly  organised  nature, 
you  know,  that  calm  people  like  me  can't 
sustain  your  electric  currents.  I  perceive  by 
the  appearance  of  that  turkey  that  I'm  about 
to  dine  in  comfort.  Pollie  has  gone  to  bring 
in  a  bottle  of  Bukkulla.  "  Put  it  to  yourself 
carefully,"  as  Mr.  Jaggers  says,  that  I  have 
had  no  lunch.  She  will  be  quite  as  much  as 
I  can  bear  during  such  a  delicate  period.  So 
out  you  go.  Order  him  off,  Mrs.  Devereux, 
if  you've  any  pity  for  me.' 

*  Well,  you  are  the  coolest  ruffian,  I  must 
say,' quoth  Mr.  Charteris,  as  Pollie  reappeared 
bearing  a  dusty  bottle  of  the  cool  and  fragrant 
Bukkulla.  '  Mrs.  Devereux,  you  spoil  him. 
It's  very  weak  of  you.  You'll  have  people 
talking.' 

'  We  don't  mind  what  people  say,  do  we, 
Harold  ? '  said  the  widow,  as  she  watched 
him  carefully  draw  the  cork  of  the  bottle, 
while  Pollie  sat  near  and  placed  a  large  hock 
glass  before  him.  '  Leave  them  alone  for 
half  an   hour.      I'm    sure,  poor  fellow,  he's 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


awfully  tired  and  hunc^ry.  I  know  where 
he's  been  ;  it  was  on  an  errand  of  mine  ; 
Mr.  Gateward  couldn't  go.  Surely  you 
can  put  up  with  my  company  for  a  little 
while.' 

'  Poor  Harold!'  grumbled  Jack,  'he  is  to 
be  pitied  indeed  !  Mrs.  Devereux,  you  know 
I  always  say  there's  no  one  talks  so  charm- 
ingly as  you  do,  and  I  always  say  what  I 
mean.  Now  isn't  there  something  I  can  do 
for  you  in  Sydney  .■* ' 

The  symposium  thus  ostentatiously 
heralded  did  not  take  quite  so  long  as  might 
have  been  e.xpected,  and  Pollie,  making  her 
appearance  in  the  drawing-room  apparently 
before  its  termination,  went  to  the  piano  at 
Mr.  Charteris's  instigation,  and  sang  two  or 
three  of  his  favourite  songs  in  a  fashion  which 
brought  any  lini^ering  remnants  of  his  passion 
once  more  to  the  surface.  .Mr,  Atherstone 
was  also  good  enough  to  express  his  aj)proval 
from  the  dining-room,  the  door  of  which  was 
open,  and  to  request  that  she  would  reserve 
her  importation  from  iht-  mciropolis  uiuil  he 
came  in.  This  (exhortation  w.is  followetl  l»v 
his  ptrrsonal  apparition.  wh<ii  the  latest  (oin 


Ill  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  73 

position  of  Stephen  Adams  was  selected  by 
him  and  duly  executed. 

Among  the  natural  endowments  lavished 
upon  this  young  creature  was  such  a  voice  as 
few  women  possess,  few  others  adequately 
develop  or  worthily  employ.  Rich,  flexible, 
with  unusual  compass,  depth,  and  power,  it 
combined  strangely  mingled  tones,  which 
carried  with  them  smiles  or  tears,  hate, 
defiance,  love  and  despair,  the  child's  glee, 
the  woman's  passion  ;  all  w^ere  enwrapped  in 
this  wondrous  organ,  prompt  to  appear  w^hen 
the  magician  touched  her  spirit  with  his 
wand.  Harold  once  said  that  in  her  ordinary 
mood  all  the  glories  of  vocal  power  seemed 
imprisoned  in  her  soul,  like  the  tunes  that 
were  frozen  in  the  mao^ic  horn. 

Men  were  used  to  sit  with  heads  bent 
low,  lest  the  faintest  note  might  escape  their 
highly  wrought  senses.  Grizzled  war-worn 
veterans  had  wept  unrestrainedly  as  she  sang 
the  simple  ballads  that  recalled  their  youth. 
Women  even  were  deeply  affected,  and  could 
not  find  one  word  of  delicatest  depreciation 
that  would  sound  otherwise  than  sacri- 
legious.     This  was  one  of  her  good  nights. 


74  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

her  amiable,  well-behaved  nights,  Harold 
said.  So  the  men  sat  and  smoked  in  the 
verandah,  with  Mrs.  Devereu.x  near  them  ; 
all  in  silence  or  low,  murmuring  converse, 
while  the  stars  huriu  l)righlly  in  the  blue 
eternity  of  the  summer  night — the  season 
itself  in  its  unchanging  brightness  an  emblem 
of  the  endless  procession  of  creation — while 
the  girl's  melodious  voice,  now  low  and  soft, 
now  wildly  appealing,  tender  or  strong,  rose 
and  fell,  or  swelled  and  died  away — *  like 
an  angel's  harp,'  said  Harold  to  her  mother,  as 
she  arose  and  came  towards  them  ;  '  and  it  is 
specially  fortunate  for  us  here,'  he  continued, 
'as  the  season  is  turning  us  all  into  some- 
thing like  the  other  thing.' 

'  Hush,  Harold,  my  hoy  ;  have  faiih  in 
God's  providence!'  replied  Mrs.  Devereux, 
placing  her  hand  on  his.  '  \\  v.  have  been 
sorely  tried  at  tinuts,  but  that  hope  and 
faith  have  never  failed  me.' 

'  What  a  lovely,  glorious,  heavenly  night ! ' 
said  the  girl,  stepping  out  on  the  broad  walk 
which  wound  amid  the  odorous  orange-trees, 
still  kept  in  leaf  and  llow<r  i)y  |)rofuse  water- 
ing.     *  What  a  shame  thai  one  should  have  to 


in  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  75 

go  to  bed !  I  feel  too  excited  to  sleep. 
That  is  why  you  fortunate  men  smoke,  I 
suppose?  It  calms  the  excitable  nervous 
system,  if  you  ever  suffer  in  that  way.' 

'Ask  Jack,' said  Mr.  Atherstone  ;  'he  is 
more  delicately  organised,  I  suppose  I  like 
smoking,  because  I  do  it  a  good  deal.  It  is 
a  contemplative,  reflective  practice,  possess- 
ing at  the  same  time  a  sedative  effect.  It 
prevents  intemperate  cerebration.  It  arrests 
the  wheels  of  thought,  which  are  otherwise 
apt  to  go  round  and  round  when  there's 
nothing  for  them  to  do — mills  with  no  corn 
to  grind.' 

'  I  never  heard  so  many  good  reasons  before 
for  what  many  people  call  a  bad  habit,' 
said  Pollie.  '  However,  I  must  say,  con- 
sidering the  hard  work  you  poor  fellows 
have  to  do  at  times,  I  think  a  man  enjoying 
his  pipe  after  his  day's  work  a  dignified  and 
ennobling  spectacle.' 

'  Quite  my  idea,  Miss  Pollie,'  said  Jack. 
'  I  really  thought  my  brain  was  giving  way 
once  in  a  dry  season.  If  I  hadn't  smoked, 
should  have  had  to  fall  back  upon  drinking. 
Dreadful  to  think  of,  isn't  it  ?     A  mixture  of 


76  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chai- 

Lat.'ikia   and   X'^iririnia    I    orot   from   a    fellow 
clown  from  India  on  leave  saved  my  life.' 

'  I  think  we  are  all  sufficiently  soothed 
and  edified  now  to  go  to  bed,'  said  Mrs. 
Devereux,  with  mild,  suggestive  authority. 
'  Dear  me  !  nearly  twelve  o'clock  too.  The 
days  are  so  long  now  that  it  is  ever  so  late 
before  dinner  is  finished  and  the  evening 
fairly  begun.' 

•  •  •  •  • 

The  parcel  from  England  to  which  refer- 
ence had  been  made  on  the  occasion  of 
Pollie's  excursion  to  Mogil  Mogil  clump  had 
arrived  safely,  and  its  contents  been  duly 
admired,  when  a  letter  received  by  the  next 
mail -steamer  contained  such  exceptional 
tidings  that  all  other  incidents  became  tame 
and  uninteresting. 

This  English  letter  proved  to  be  from 
Cai)tain  Devereux's  elder  brother,  with  whom, 
since  the  former's  death.  .Mrs.  Devereux  had 
kept  up  a  formal  but  regular  correspondi-nce. 
The  members  of  her  husband's  family  had 
proved  sympathetic  in  her  hour  of  sorrow. 
They  had  j)ossil)ly  bci-n  louclieil  i)y  the  pas- 
sionate griel  of  a  r«  l.iiive  whose  letters  after  a 


in  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  77 

while  commenced  to  exhibit  so  much  sound 
sense  and  proper  feeling.  From  that  time 
the  elders  of  the  house  of  Devereux  never 
omitted  befitting  attention  and  friendly  re- 
cognition of  the  far-off,  unknown  kinswoman. 

And  now,  it  seems,  they  had  despatched 
Mr.  Bertram  Devereux,  late  lieutenant  in 
Her  Majesty's  6th  Dragoon  Guards,  who, 
from  force  of  circumstances,  reckless  extrava- 
gance and  imprudence  no  doubt,  but  from  no 
improper  conduct,  had  been  compelled  to 
quit  that  crack  corps  and  the  brilliant  society 
he  adorned.  He  had  a  small  capital,  how- 
ever, several  thousand  pounds  fortunately, 
the  bequest  of  an  aunt.  Having  decided 
upon  a  colonial  career,  he  was  anxious  to 
gain  the  requisite  experience  on  the  estate  of 
his  cousin,  Mrs.  Brian  Devereux.  If  she  had 
no  objection,  would  she  lay  them  all  under  a 
deep  obligation  by  receiving  the  young  man 
into  her  family,  and  by  acting  a  mother's  part 
to  one  who  was  forced  to  quit  home  and 
native  land,  perhaps  for  ever  }  ' 

This  last  enclosure  was  from  Lady  Anne 
Devereux,  a  lady  in  her  own  right,  who, 
much    to    the    distaste    of   her    friends    and 


78  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

family,  had  been  fascinated  by  the  handsome 
Colonel  Dominick  Daly  Devereux,  one  of 
the  military  celebrities  of  the  day.  In  the 
main  the  tone  of  the  letter  was  proud  and 
cold  ;  but  there  were  a  few  expressions  which 
so  plainly  showed  the  mother's  bruised  heart, 
that  Mrs.  Devereux  could  not  resist  the 
appeal. 

'  I  fear  he  will  be  a  troublesome  inmate  in 
one  sense  or  another,'  she  reflected.  'He  is 
hardly  young  enough  to  take  kindly  to  station 
life.  Then  aL:;^ain,  how  will  my  darling  girl 
be  affected  by  his  companionshij)  .^  Init  I 
can  enter  into  a  mother's  feelings.  I  cannot 
refuse  hospitality  to  my  dear  husband's 
nephew.  We  must  make  the  best  of  it. 
1  Ic  will  not  be  worse,  I  suppose,  than  other 
newly  arrived  young  men.  They  are  an 
awful  bother  duriuL,"  the  first  year.  .\fter 
that  they  bc-come  like  other  people.  I  hope 
Mr.  Ciateward  will  tak*-  to  him.' 

And  now  the  stated  time  hail  been  over- 
pa.ssed.  The  Indus  (P.  and  ().  Service)  had 
arrived  ;  a  telegram  had  been  rcccrivcd  ;  and 
Mr.  lieriram  Devereux  was  hourly  expected 
bv  the   mail-coa(h.      This   fateful  vihicle  did 


Ill  OR  FOLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  79 

actually  arrive  rather  late  on  the  evening 
specified,  it  is  true,  but  without  having, 
according  to  Pollie's  prophecies  and  reiter- 
ated assertions,  either  broken  down,  upset, 
or  lost  its  way  owing  to  the  new  driver 
taking  a  back  track  which  led  into  the 
wilderness  and  ended  at  a  lately  finished 
tank,  far  from  the  habitations  of  civilised 
man. 

As  the  coach  swung  round  the  corner  of 
the  stock-yard  and  drew  up  underneath  a 
wide-branched  white  acacia  which  shaded  a 
large  proportion  of  an  inner  enclosure,  the 
driver  received  a  douceur  which  confirmed 
him  in  the  opinion  which  he  had  previously 
entertained  of  his  passenger  being  '  a  perfect 
gentleman.'  He  therefore  busied  himself 
actively  in  unloading  his  portmanteau  and 
other  effects,  deposited  the  station  mail-bag, 
and  without  further  loss  of  time  took  the 
well-trodden  road  to  the  township.  As  the 
eyes  of  his  late  fare  rested  mechanically 
upon  the  fast-departing  coach,  he  saw  little 
but  a  cloud  of  dust  outlining  every  turn  of 
the  road,  amid  which  gleamed  the  five  great 
lamps,   which    finally   diminished   apparently 


8o  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

into  Star- fragments,  as  they  traversed  the 
unending  plain  which  stretched  northward 
and  northward  ever. 

A  young  man,  wliose  Crimean  sliirt  and 
absence  of  necktie  denoted  to  the  traveller 
the  presumed  abandon  of  bush  life,  advanced 
from  the  door  of  a  species  of  shop  for  general 
merchandise,  as  it  seemed  to  the  stranger, 
and  dragging  in  the  mail-bag,  saluted  him 
courteously.  '  Mr.  1  )evereu.\,  1  think? 
Please  to  come  in.' 

Meekly  following  his  interlocutor  through 
the  'shop,'  as  he  termed  it,  he  found  himself 
in  a  smaller  and  more  comfortable  room. 
L(X)king  around  at  the  somewhat  'cabin'd, 
cribb'd,  and  confin'd  '  section,  he  answered, 
'My  name  is  Devereux.  1  have  come  to 
remain.  May  I  ask  which  ol  ihes(^  rooms  is 
to  be  allotted  to  me  }  ' 

The  storekeeper  smilc^d.  '  \'ou  didn't 
think  this  was  the  house,  sir  .•*  This  is  the 
overseer's  place,  the  barracks,  as  we  call  it  in 
the  bush.  If  you  come  alur  nu-  I'll  show 
you  th(.'  wa\'.  N'our  luggage  will  i)c  jjrought 
to  you  if  you  will  leave  it  lu-re.' 

The  new-comer  had  not,  in  iruih,  troubled 


Ill  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  8i 

himself  to  consider  what  AustraHan  dwellings 
might  resemble.  He  expected  nothing.  He 
had  made  up  his  mind  to  the  worst.  There- 
fore he  would  not  have  been  in  the  least 
surprised  if  his  aunt  or  cousin  had  issued  from 
one  of  the  small  apartments  which  opened 
out  from  the  larger  room  ;  had  directed  him 
to  occupy  another  ;  had  then  and  there  placed 
a  kettle  on  the  smouldering  wood  fire  for  the 
purpose  of  providing  him  with  refreshment 
after  his  journey. 

He  therefore  mechanically  followed  his 
guide  through  a  passage  and  along  a 
verandah  until  they  reached  a  white  gate 
in  a  garden  paling,  when  the  young  man  in 
the  light  raiment  quitted  him  with  this  fare- 
well precept — 

'  The  front  entrance  is  between  those  two 
large  rose-bushes,  and  the  first  room  to  the 
right  of  the  hall.  Mrs.  Devereux  or  Miss 
PoUie  sure  to  be  there.' 

Proceeding  along  the  path  as  he  had  been 
directed,  Bertram  Devereux  commenced  to 
experience  a  slight  degree  of  surprise,  even 
curiosity.  He  was  evidently  in  an  aesthetic 
region,  short  as  had  been  the  distance  from 


82  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

the  Sternest  commonplace.  The  borders  had 
been  carefully  kept.  Mowers  were  blooming 
profusely.  Oranges  and  limes  shed  a  subtle 
and  powerful  odour  around.  The  stars 
gleamed  on  a  sheet  of  water  which  had 
evidently  helped  to  create  this  oasis  in  the 
desert.  The  whispering  leaves  of  the  banana 
brought  back  memories  of  tropic  glories  of 
foliage.  Turning  between  two  vast  cloth-of- 
gold  standards,  the  blooms  of  which  met  and 
clustered  about  his  head,  he  ascended  a 
flight  of  slcps  and  found  himself  in  a  broad 
verandah  luniislu-d  with  cane  lounges  and 
hammocks. 

The  hanging  lamp,  which  illumined  a 
wide  and  lofty  hall,  showed  ferns  of  various 
size  and  foliage,  the  delicate  colouring  of 
which  struck  gratefully  upon  his  aching  and 
dust-enfeebled  eyes,  A  book,  a  few  gathered 
flowers,  lay  upon  a  small  tal)le  with  sf)me  half- 
executed  ornamental  needlework.  All  told 
of  recent  feminine  presence  and  occuj)ation. 

As  he  lingered  in  ()l)ser\ati()n  of  these 
novelties,  a  lady  j)assed  into  the  hall  from  a 
side-door  and  advanced  with  a  look  of  kindly 
welcome. 


rii  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  83 

'  You  are  Bertram  Devereux,  I  know,  and 
oh  !  though  your  hair  and  eyes  are  dark  ' — 
here  she  looked  wistfully  in  his  face — *  I  can 
see  the  family  likeness  to  my  darling  husband. 
You  are  the  only  one  of  his  relations  I  have 
seen.  You  may  think  how  welcome  you  are 
at  Corindah.  But  it  is  a  lonely  life.  I  am 
afraid  you  will  miss  the  society  you  have  been 
accustomed  to.  My  husband  could  never 
have  endured  it  but  that  he  hoped  to  make  a 
fortune.' 

'And  so  do  I,  Aunt  Mary,'  said  the  young 
man,  with  a  quiet  smile.  '  Had  I  not  expected 
great  things  I  should  never  have  come  so  far 
from  civilisation.  But  I  should  not  talk  so,' 
he  added,  looking  round.  'You  seem  to  have 
everything  one  has  been  used  to,  conserva- 
tories and  all.' 

'  We  have  always  tried  to  live  in  reason- 
able comfort,'  replied  Mrs.  Devereux.  'As 
to  the  fortune,  it  is  sometimes  a  long  time  in 
coming.  And  a  dry  year  like  this  delays  it 
still  more.  Now,  having  told  you  how  glad 
we  are  to  see  you,  you  will  be  anxious  to  be 
shown  your  bedroom.  In  half  an  hour  the 
bell  will  ring  for  tea.      We  do  not  dine  late, 


84  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

but  I  can  promise  you  something  substantial 
after  your  journey.' 

After  a  bath  and  a  leisurely  change  of 
toilette  in  the  very  well  appointed  bedroom 
where  he  was  installed — the  (lowers  upon 
the  dressing  and  writing  tables  betokening 
the  expected  guest — the  pilgrim  commenced 
to  take  a  more  tolerant  view  of  Australian 
prospects  than  up  to  this  period  he  had 
deemed  possible. 

*  Quiet,  yet  dignified  and  refined  woman, 
my  new  aunt,'  he  soliloquised.  'Very  far 
from  the  bustling  farmer's  wife  I  had  expected. 
Handsome  in  her  youth — very — must  have 
been.  My  erratic  cousin  was  by  no  means 
such  a  fool  as  we  all  thought  him.  And  her 
fair  daughter,  too  —  how  about  her.''  A 
beauty  and  an  heir(-'ss,  thc;y  all  sa)-.  I  never 
bargained  for  thai.  Seems  as  il  there  were 
women  wherever  one  goes — wherever  I  go, 
at  least.     Just  my  luck.' 

Mr.  Devereux  had  .scarcely  enunciated  this 
disheartening  truism,  with  a  mildly  resigned, 
not  to  say  desponding  expression  of  counte- 
nance, when  the  1)1  II  of  whi(  h  he  had  been 
warned  rang  out  a  peal.      Placing  a  rosebud  of 


Ill  OR  FOLLIE'S  PROS  A  TION  85 

Gloire  de  Dijon  in  his  button-hole,  he  sought 
the  drawing-room,  of  which  he  found  himself 
the  sole  occupant. 

He  had  observed  that  it  was  handsomely 
furnished,  in  a  style  not  noticeably  different 
from  the  fashion  of  the  day,  being  not  wholly 
devoid  of  china,  having  a  few  rare  plaques 
and  Moorish  brass-ware — there  was  even  a 
dado,  also  a  magnificent  grand  piano  by 
Erard — when  two  young  people  came  through 
one  of  the  French  windows  which  'gave'  into 
the  verandah. 

'  I  shall  never  agree  with  you,  Harold,'  the 
girl  was  saying  to  her  companion  ;  '  not  even 
if  we  lived  here  for  the  next  twenty  years — 
and  I  shall  drown  or  otherwise  make  away 
with  myself  in  that  case.' 

'There  are  worse  places  than  Corindah,' 
replied  a  young  man  who  followed  her  in. 
'You  may  live  to  be  convinced  of  the  fact.' 

'  I  should  hate  any  place,'  retorted  the  girl, 
in  playful  defiance,  '  if  I  had  to  live  there 
all  my  life.  I  quite  envy  my  cousin  Mr. 
Devereux,  who  has  only  just  come.  Every- 
thing will  be  so  nice  and  new  to  him.  Cousin 
Bertram,'  she  said,  advancing  and  holding  out 


86  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

her  hand,  '  I  am  charmed  to  welcome  you. 
Mother  and  I  have  been  talking  of  no  one 
else  for  the  last  week.  Let  me  introduce  Mr. 
Harold  Atherstone,  a  near  neighbour  and  a 
great  friend  of  ours,  lie  will  be  able  to  give 
you  advice  and  information  beyond  all  price.' 

The  two  men  bowed  gravely,  as  is  the 
manner  of  freshly  acquainted  Britons,  and 
looked  steadily,  if  not  searchingly,  into  each 
other's  eyes.     The  new-comer  spoke  first. 

'  I  can't  tell  you  how  pleased  I  am  with 
everything — and  everybody.'  he  said,  after  a 
slight  pause  ;  'so  different  from  what  I  had 
expected.  I  feel  as  if  1  had  found  a  home 
and  relations  instead  of  Icavini^  them  for  ever. 
Most  happy  to  meet  Mr.  Atherstone,  and 
hope  to  profit  by  his  experience  and  other 
people's.' 

For  the  few  seconds  that  passed  while 
the  new  friend  and  the  old  one  confronted 
one  another  the  young  lady  regarded  them 
keenly.  Nor  was  her  mind  idle.  '  As  far 
as  appearance  goes,'  she  thouL^ln.  Harold 
has  cerlainl)-  ihe  best  of  il.  Tall,  wcll- 
proporlioiicd,  with  iiuc  l)|-(»\\n  hair  and 
beard,    and    ihosi;    honest    grey    ctyes — what 


Ill  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  87 

most  girls  would  call  a  splendid  fellow,  and 
so  he  is.  Why  am  I  not  fonder  of  him  ? 
Bertram  is  certainly  distinguished  looking, 
but  he  is  only  middle-sized  and  almost  plain 
— dark  hair  and  eyes,  rather  good  these  last. 
I  feel  disappointed  ;  I  don't  know  why.  He 
smiles  nicely — that  is,  he  could  if  he  took  the 
trouble.  We  must  wait,  I  suppose,  till  his 
character  develops.  I  hate  waiting.  I  see 
mother  coming.  We  had  better  go  in  to 
tea.' 

This  last  observation  was  the  only  one 
audible.  The  other  results  of  lightning-like 
apprehension  had  only  been  flashed  by 
electric  agencies  from  eye  and  heart  to 
brain — there  registered,  doubtless,  for  future 
verification  or  erasure,  as  circumstances 
might  determine.  Mrs.  Devereux  had 
entered.  Pollie  offered  her  arm  to  her 
cousin,  whom  she  piloted  to  the  dining-room, 
leaving  Mr.  Atherstone  to  follow  with  her 
mother. 

If  the  young  ^niigrd\\?A  been  previously 
astonished  at  the  tone  of  the  household 
arrangements,  he  was  even  more  surprised 
as    he  surveyed  the  well -lighted  room    and 


88  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

marked  with  much  inward  satisfaction  the 
wcll-scrvcd  repast,  the  complete  and  elegant 
table  appointments.  The  tea  equipage  at 
the  head  of  the  table,  over  which  Mrs. 
Devereux  presided,  determined  the  character 
of  the  repast ;  but  the  general  effect  was  that 
of  a  sufficiently  good  dinner,  with  adjuncts 
of  light  wine  and  the  pale  ale  of  Britain, 
which  neither  of  the  young  men  declined. 
Both  ladies  were  becomingly  dressed  in 
evening  costume — Mrs.  Devereux  plainly 
and  unobtrusively,  while  her  dauL;hter  had 
donned  for  the  occasion  a  sea-green  mcr- 
maiden  triumph  of  millinery,  which  subtly 
suited  the  delicate  tints  of  her  complexion, 
as  also  the  silken  masses  of  her  abundant 
hair. 

In  ilic  trial  of  first  introductions,  unless 
the  key-note  be  swiftly  struck  and  more 
than  one  of  the  talkers  be  enthusiastic,  the 
conversation  is  apt  to  languish,  lieing  chielly 
tentative  and  fragmentary.  Now  Pollie 
was  eagerly  cnlluisiastic.  but  her  burning 
impatience  on  a  score  of  subjc.'Cts  awoke  no 
responsive  note  in  the  incurious,  undemon- 
strative kir.sman.      lie  was  apparently  ready 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION 


to  receive  information  about  the  customs  of 
a  country  and  people  to  him  so  novel,  but 
did  not  press  for  it. 

He  studiously  avoided  committing  himself 
to  opinions,  and  made  but  few  assertions. 
On  the  other  hand,  Harold  Atherstone 
declined  to  pose  as  a  didactic  or  locally 
well-informed  personage,  contenting  himself 
with  remarking  that  those  intending  pastor- 
alists  who  possessed  common  sense  acquired 
information  for  themselves ;  to  the  other 
division  advice  was  useless  and  experience 
vain.  This  cynical  summing  up  of  the 
Great  Australian  Question  merely  caused 
the  stranger  to  raise  his  eyebrows,  and  Pollie 
to  pout  and  declare  that  Mr,  Atherstone 
was  very  disobliging  and  quite  unlike  himself 
that  evening. 

Upon  this  it  appeared  to  Mrs.  Devereux 
to  interpose  an  apologetic  observation  con- 
cerning the  state  of  the  country,  including 
the  roads,  live-stock,  and  pasturage ;  to 
which  their  guest  made  answer  that  he  had 
always  believed  Australia  to  be  a  dry  and 
parched  region,  and  had  supposed  this  to  be 
a  normal  state  of  matters. 


90  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

'  Oh  !  we're  not  quit(!  so  bad  always  as 
you  see  us  now,'  exclaimed  Pollie,  suppress- 
ing a  laugh.  '  Are  we,  Harold  ?  You  would 
hardly  believe  that  these  dusty  plains  are 
covered  with  grass  as  high  as  a  horse's  head 
in  a  good  season,  would  you  now  ?  ' 

Mr.  Devereu.x  did  jiot  believe  it.  But  he 
inclined  his  head  politely  and  said  that  it 
must  present  a  very  pleasing  appearance. 

'  Yes,  indeed,'  continued  the  girl.  '  In  the 
old  days  the  shepherds  were  provided  with 
horses,  becau.se  the  grass  was  so  tall  that 
th(^  sheep  used  to  get  lost.  Men  on  foot 
could  not  see  them  in  it.' 

The  listener  began  to  feel  convinced  that 
the  facts  related  were  approaching  the 
border  of  strange  travel  and  adventure  so 
circumstantially  described  by  one  Lemuel 
Gulliver,  but  he  inaiifully  uiihcld  utterance 
of  the  heresy,  merely  remarking  that  they 
would  think  that  very  strange  in  I'^nglaml. 

'  I'm  afraid  you're  cautious,'  (pioth  his  fair 
teacher,  trying  to  frown.  'If  there's  any- 
thing I  despise,  it's  caution.  It's  your  duty 
as  a  n<:wly  arrived  person  to  In-  wildly  aston- 
ished   at    anything,    to    inak(!     (juantities    of 


Ill  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  gi 

mistakes,  and  so  gradually  to  learn  the  noble 
and  aristocratic  profession  of  a  squatter.  If 
you're  going  to  be  unnaturally  rational,  I 
shall  have  no  pleasure  in  teaching  you.' 

'\{  yo2i  will  undertake  the  task,'  replied 
the  neophyte,  with  a  sudden  gleam  in  his 
dark  eyes  which  for  an  instant  lighted  up  the 
somewhat  sombre  countenance,  '  I  will  pro- 
mise to  commit  all  the  errors  you  may  think 
necessary.' 

'  As  to  that,  we'll  see,'  answered  the  damsel, 
with  a  fine  affectation  of  carelessness.  '  I 
make  no  promises.  We  shall  have  plenty  of 
time — Oh,  dear !  what  quantities  of  it  we  do 
waste  here — to  find  out  all  one  another's  bad 
qualities.     Shall  we  not,  Harold?' 

'  I  have  never  made  any  discoveries  of  the 
sort,  Miss  Devereux,'  said  the  young  man  ; 
'  I  can't  answer,  of  course,  for  the  result  of 
your  explorations.' 

'  I  couldn't  find  anything  bad  in  you,'  said 
the  girl  eagerly,  '  if  I  tried  for  a  century. 
That's  the  worst  of  it.  You  always  put  me 
in  the  wrong.  Doesn't  he,  mother?  There's 
no  satisfaction  in  quarrelling  with  him.' 

'  Why  should  you  quarrel   if  it  comes  to 


92  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

that?'  queried  the  matron,  with  a  wistful 
glance  at  her  child.  '  You  only  ditler  in 
opinion  occasionally,  I  observe.' 

'  Why,  because  quarrelling  is  one  of  the 
necessities — I  should  almost  say  luxuries — of 
existence,'  retorted  the  young  lady.  '  What 
would  life  be  without  ii  ?  Think  of  the  pleasure 
of  making  it  up.  I  should  die  il  I  didn't 
quarrel  with  somebody  now  and  then.' 

'  Or  talk  nonsense  occasionally,  as  your 
cousin  has  doubtless  by  this  time  observed,' 
answered  her  mother.  '  1  think  we  may 
adjourn  to  the  drawing-room.' 

The  drawing-room  in  this  case  meant  the 
verandah,  in  which  luxurious  retreat  the  little 
jjarty  soon  ensconced  themselves. 

'  Really,'  remarked  Devereux,  as  he  lit  a 
cigar  and  abandoned  himself  to  the  inner 
depths  of  a  Cingalese  chair,  '  if  there  was  a 
little  niolicjn.  I  could  fancy  we  were  in  the 
Red  Sea.  Same  sky,  same  stars,  same  mild 
temperature,  and  tobacco.  This  is  very 
different  from  the  stern  realities  ol  colonial 
life  I  had  pictured  to  myself 

'  We  don't  give  ourselves  out  as  industrial 
martyrs,'  remarked  .\lherslone  placidl)-,  '  but 


Ill  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  93 

you  will  probably  find  out  that  bush  life  is 
not  all  beer  and  skittles,' 

'Hope  not,'  replied  Devereux.  'That 
would  be  too  good  to  last,  obviously.  Still 
I  can  gather  that  you  have  extenuating 
circumstances.  I  certainly  never  expected 
to  spend  my  first  evening  like  this.' 

Atherstone  made  no  answer,  but  apparently 
permitted  his  pipe  reverie  to  prevail.  The 
other  man  reclined  as  if  somewhat  fatigued, 
and  smoked  his  cigar,  listening  indolently  to 
the  running  conversational  comment  which 
his  cousin  kept  up,  sometimes  with  him, 
sometimes  with  Atherstone,  whose  answers 
were  chiefly  monosyllabic.  The  girl's  fresh 
voice  falling  pleasantly  upon  his  ear,  with  the 
lulling  effect  of  rhythmic  melody  or  murmuring 
stream,  Mr.  Bertram  Devereux  was  led  to 
the  conclusion,  by  his  novel  and  interesting 
experience,  that  an  evening  might  be  spent 
pleasantly,  even  luxuriously,  at  this  incredible 
'  distance  from  town,'  as  he  himself  would 
have  expressed  it. 

With  this  conviction,  however,  and  the 
termination  of  his  cigar  came  a  distinctly 
soporific  proclivity,  so  that,  pleading  fatigue 


94  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap,  hi 

and  decIiniiiLC  further  refreshment,  the  new- 
comer was  fain  to  betake  himself  to  bed,  in 
which  blessed  refuge  from  care  and  pain, 
labour  and  sorrow,  he  shc^tly  ceased  to  re- 
volve the  very  comprehensive  subject  of 
colonial  experience. 


CHAPTER  IV 

On  the  morning  after  his  arrival  the  visitor, 
making  his  appearance  at  an  early  hour,  had 
a  short  conversation  with  Mr.  Gateward, 
whom  he  found  at  the  horse-yard  sending 
out  his  men  for  the  day.  '  Of  course  I  know 
nothing  of  this  sort  of  thing,'  he  said  ;  'but 
I  have  come  here  to  learn,  with  a  view  to  in- 
vesting a  few  thousands  I  have  in  a  property, 
or  station,  as  I  think  you  call  it.  Now 
understand  clearly  that  I  shall  be  glad  to  help 
in  the  work  of  the  place,  in  any  way  that  I 
am  fitted  for.  I  can  ride  and  drive  decently, 
shoot,  walk,  keep  accounts  ;  in  a  general  way 
do  most  things  that  other  people  can.  Of 
course  I  can't  pick  up  the  whole  drill  at  once, 
but  I  don't  want  you  to  spare  me.  I  came 
to  Australia  to  work,  and  the  sooner  I  learn 
the  better.' 


96  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

*  All  right,  sir,'  replied  the  bronzed  veteran, 
'  I'll  see  what  I  can  do.  If  you  ride  about 
wiih  me  every  day,  and  keep  your  eyes  open, 
you'll  pick  up  as  much  in  six  months  as  most 
of  the  people  know  that  own  stations.  It's 
a  bad  year  now,  and  we're  all  in  the  doldrums, 
as  the  sailors  say.  But  it's  not  ^oing  to  be 
that  way  always.  The  wind'll  change  or  the 
rain'll  come,  and  then  we'll  be  able  to  show 
ycni  what  Corindah  looks  like  in  a  good 
season.' 

'  Then  we  understand  each  other.  I'll  take 
my  orders  from  you,  but,  of  course,  from  no 
one  else — ('  Not  likely,'  interjected  Mr.  Gate- 
wartl,  looking  at  the  steady  eye  and  short, 
proud  upper  lip  of  the  speaker) — '  and  early 
or  late,  wet  or  dry  (if  ii  ever  is  wet  here),  hot 
or  cold,  you'll  hnd  me  ready  and  willing. 
Give  me  a  couple  of  good  hacks,  and  I'll  soon 
have  an  idea  of  how  you  carry  on  the  war.' 

'  I'm  dashed  sure  ycni  will,  sir,  and  I  shall 
be  j)r()U(l  In  helj)  a  gentleman  like  you  lo  a 
knowledge  of  things,  that's  willing  to  learn, 
anil  not  too  proud  lo  take  a  hint.' 

'  Ouit('  so.  I  suppose  you  remember  my 
cousin   Brian  .-*      1    was   very  young  when   he 


IV  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  97 

left  home,  but  I  always  heard  that  he  was 
a  hard  man  to  beat  at  anything  he  chose  to 
go  in  for.' 

'  He  was  as  fine  a  man  as  ever  wore  shoe- 
leather,'  said  the  overseer.  '  Everybody  re- 
spected him  in  these  parts,  and  he  was  that 
jolly  and  kind  in  his  ways,  nobody  could  help 
likinof  him.  If  he  hadn't  been  cut  off  in  his 
prime  by  that  infernal  Doctor — the  cattle- 
duffing,  horse-stealing  hound — he'd  have  been 
one  of  the  richest  men  in  the  district  this 
very  minute.' 

'He  was  shot  by  a  highway  robber?' 
inquired  Devereux ;  'what  you  call  a  bush- 
ranger in  Australia,  don't  you  ? ' 

'  Well,  there  are  bushrangers  and  bush- 
rangers,' said  the  overseer.  '  This  chap, 
the  Doctor,  hadn't  regularly  took  to  the 
bush,  as  one  might  say,  though  he  was  worse 
than  many  as  did.  He  belonged  to  a  mob 
of  cattle-stealers  that  used  to  duff  cattle  in 
the  back  country,  and  pass  them  over  to 
Queensland.  Well,  Mr.  Tracknell,  one  of 
the  squatters  in  the  back  blocks,  began  to 
run  'em  pretty  close,  and  put  the  police  on 
'em.     They  heard  he  was  to  be  in  the  coach 

H 


98  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiAr. 

from  Orange  on  a  certain  day,  and  made  it 
right  to  stick  it  up  and  give  him  a  lesson.' 

'  What's  sticking  up  ?  ' 

'  Well,  sir,  by  what  one  hears  and  reads, 
it  is  what  used  to  be  called  "  stopping  "  on 
the  Queen's  highway  in  England.' 

'  Then  they  had  no  grudge  against  Brian 
Devereu.x  ?  ' 

*  Not  a  bit  in  the  world.  I  le  was  known 
far  and  wide  as  a  free-handed  gentleman. 
Any  one  was  welcome  to  stop  at  Corindah 
in  his  time,  and  no  poor  man  ever  went 
away  hungry.  The  man  the  Doctor  and  Bill 
Bond  wanted  wasn't  in  the  coach  as  it 
happened.  He'd  got  wind  of  it  and  cleared. 
But  they  heard  there  was  a  gentleman  with  a 
big  beard  going  down  the  country,  and  made 
sure  it  was  him.  When  llu-y  came  up  and 
saw  ihcir  mistake,  th(;y'd  have  rode  off  again, 
only  the  CajHain  was  that  hot  -  tempered 
and  angry  at  their  stopping  him,  that  he 
fired  on  them,  ami  nearly  collared  the  lot. 
They  returned  it,  and  rode  off  as  well  as  they 
could,  and  never  knew  till  days  after  that 
they  had  hit  him.  Them  as  told  me  said 
the-    Doctor    was  devilish   sorry   for    it,    and 


IV  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  99 

that  he  was  the  last  man  in  the  district  they'd 
have  hurt.' 

'  What  became  of  the  Doctor,  as  you  call 
him?' 

'  Well,  sir,  he's  in  the  back  country  some- 
where in  Queensland  yet,  I  believe.  He 
served  a  sentence  for  horse-stealino-  of  seven 
y-ears ;  but  he's  wanted  again,  and  there's  a 
warrant  out  for  him.  He's  a  desperate  man 
now,  and  I  wouldn't  be  sure  he  won't  do 
something  that'll  be  talked  about  yet  before 
his  end  comes.' 

'  It's  to  be  hoped  there'll  be  a  rope 
round  his  neck  on  that  day,'  said  Bertram  ; 
*  scoundrels  of  that  kind  should  be  trapped 
or  poisoned  like  vermin.' 

'Well,  sir,  the  Doctor's  no  chop,  but 
there's  worse  than  Bill  Bond,  if  you'll  believe 
me.  The  only  thing  is,  now  he's  hunted  from 
pillar  to  post  so,  and  he  ain't  got  half  a 
chance  to  repent  if  he  wanted  ever  so  much, 
I'm  afraid  he'll  do  something  out  of  the  way 
bad  yet.' 

The  autumnal  season,  with  calm  sun- 
gilded  days,  cool  starlight,  unclouded  nights, 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


and  mornings  fresh  and  exhilarating,  as  if 
newly  ordered  from  Paradise,  came  gradually 
to  an  end.  Lovely,  passing  fair,  as  weather 
in  the  abstract  ;  but  dry,  dry,  always  dry,  and 
as  such  lamentable  and  injurious.  Then 
winter  made  believe  to  arrive  with  the  first 
week  in  June.  But  how  could  it  be  winter, 
Bertram  thou<'ht,  when  the  skies  were  still 
cloudless  and  untroubled,  the  mid-day  warm, 
the  plains  dusty,  the  air  soft,  the  river  low  ; 
when  the  (lowers  in  the  garden  bhx^med  and 
budded  as  usual  ;  when  no  leaf  fell  from  the 
forest  ;  when,  save  the  great  acacias  in  the 
backyard  and  the  white  cedars  in  the  garden, 
all  the  trees  at  Corindah  were  green  and  full- 
foliaged  ?  'ihe  chief  difference  was  that  the 
nights  were  longer,  cooler.  'I'Iutc  were 
sharp  frosts  from  lim('  to  lime  ;  and  when 
Bertram  arose  early  in  the  morning,  accord- 
ing to  his  wont,  all  things  were  covered  with 
an  icy  mantle.  ( )n  one  occasion,  when  he 
met  Mr.  Gateward  coming  in  from  a  long 
night  ride,  his  abundant  beartl  was  frozen 
stiff  as  a  stalactite. 

The  sheej)  died  faster  than  ever,  al  \\liii  li 
I)crlrain    wondercil    much,    bnl.    did    not    ask 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION 


questions.  '  Everything  comes  to  him  who 
waits,'  was  one  of  his  favourite  proverbs. 

'  If  it  had  been  always  thus,'  he  told  him- 
self, 'so  many  evidences  of  capital  and  pros- 
perity would  not  be  here.  A  change  will 
come  sometime,  but  I  cannot  hasten  it  by 
ignorant  questions.  I  shall  learn  all  about 
this  extraordinary  country  in  the  course  of 
time.' 

His  theory  was  sound.  But  Mrs.  Dever- 
eux  was  neither  so  self  -  contained  nor 
philosophical.  She  complained  and  be- 
moaned herself  from  time  to  time,  as  is  the 
way  of  women.  At  the  evening  meal,  when 
after  the  day's  duties  the  two  young  people 
and  herself  met  with  an  affectation  of  social 
enjoyment,  she  made  many  things  plain  to 
the  inquiring  mind  of  Bertram  Devereux, 
silent  and  incurious  as  he  seemed  to  be. 

'  It  had  not  always  been  thus.  In  the 
old,  happy  days  droughts  had  certainly  oc- 
curred, but  with  intervals  of  years  between. 
Now  the  seasons  seemed  to  have  changed. 
The  year  before  last  was  a  drought,  and 
now — this  was  the  most  sore  and  terrible 
grass    famine    she    had    ever    remembered. 


I02  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 


Their  losses   would  be    frightful,  disastrous, 
ruinous.' 

•  Was  it  on  the  cards  that  she  would  be 
actually  ruined — lose  all  her  property,  that 
is — if  the  season  remained  unchanged  ? ' 

'  Well,  not  absolutely.  She  could  not 
truthfully  say  that.  Even  if  all  the  sheep  on 
Corindah  died,  the  whole  fifty  thousand,  the 
land  and  fences  woukl  remain.  lUit  twenty 
or  thirty  thousand  pounds  would  be  an 
immense  sum  to  make  up.  The  very  thought 
made  her  shudder.  To  think  of  the  years  it 
had  taken  to  make  and  save  it!  No  doubt 
she  could  get  more  sheep,  llcr  credil.  she 
was  thankful  to  say,  was  good  enough  for 
that.' 

'I  believe  it's  all  Mr.  Gateward's  fault, 
said  I'ollie  impetuously.  '  Why  did  he 
persuade  you  not  to  buy  a  station  in  the 
mountains  last  year,  when;  there's  beautiful 
green  grass  and  running  water  in  tin-  driest 
summer.  That's  what  is  ncetletl  for  the 
poor  sheep  now.  And  all  for  a  thousand 
pounds,' 

'A  thousand  jjountls  is  a  great  deal  of 
money,'  said  Mrs.  Devereu.x.     '  lie  thought 


IV  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  103 

he  could  get  some  country  cheaper,  and  in 
the  meantime  it  was  snapped  up.  I  have 
been  sorry  for  it  ever  since.  But  he  meant 
well,  as  he  always  does.' 

'  I  know  that.  He's  as  good  an  old 
creature  as  ever  lived,  and  devoted  to  you 
and  me,  mother.  I  wouldn't  say  a  word 
against  him  for  the  world.  But  he's  too 
slow  and  cautious  in  matters  like  this,  which 
need  decision.  Think  of  all  the  poor  weak 
sheep,  with  their  imploring  eyes,  that  would 
have  been  kept  alive  if  we  had  sent  twenty 
or  thirty  thousand  up  to  those  lovely  moun- 
tains.' 

'  I  suppose  it's  too  late  now,'  said  Bertram. 
'  Of  course  I  know  nothing  as  yet,  but  could 
not  some  of  them — ten  thousand  or  so — be 
taken  away  now  }  ' 

'That's  where  the  misery  is,'  said  Pollie. 
*  The  snow  has  fallen  on  the  mountains. 
Indeed,  nearly  all  the  sheep  have  come  away. 
Those  thirty  thousand  of  Mr.  Haller's  that 
passed  here  last  week,  and  gave  you  so 
much  trouble,  had  just  come  from  there. 
And  how  nice  and  strong  they  were,  do  you 
remember  ?     Our  poor   things  are  so  weak 


I04  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

that  they  couldn't  travel  if  wc  had  ever  so 
much  green  grass  to  send  them  to.' 

'It's  Napoleon's  Russian  campaign  over 
again — only,  that  our  country's  too  dry  to 
hold  us,  and  his  was  too  cold.  And  is  there 
no  return  from  I:ll>a  ? ' 

'When  llu;  rain  comes,  not  before.  It 
may  come  soon,  in  a  few  months,  this  year, 
next  year,  not  at  all.  So  we're  in  a  pleasing 
state  of  uncertainty,  don't  you  think  V 

'  And  you  are  not  all  sitting  in  sackcloth 
and  ashes,  or  fasting,  or  making  vows  to  the 
saints,  ami  what  not  !  This  is  a  wonderful 
country,  and  you  are  wonderful  people,  I 
must  say,  to  take  matters  so  calmly.' 

'  We  know  our  country  and  the  general 
course  of  the  seasons,'  said  Mrs.  Devereux. 
'  In  the  long-run  they  prove  favourable, 
though  the  exceptional  years  are  hard.  And 
we  strive  to  have  f.iilh  in  God's  providence, 
believing  that  whoso  trusts  in  Ilim  will  not 
be  left  desolate.' 

Letter  from  Miss  M.  A.  Dtvereux  to 
Miss  Clara  Thornton,  I^'airoaks.  lulgecliffe, 
Sydney  : — 


IV  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  105 

My  darling  Clara — I  hope  you  think  of  me 
daily,  nightly,  at  breakfast  and  lunch  time ;  also  at 
midnight,  when  you  can  look  out  of  your  bedroom 
window,  and  see  that  lovely  South  Head  beacon-Ught 
and  the  star-showers  gleaming  on  the  wavelets  of  the 
bay ;  when  you  can  inhale  the  strong  sweet  ocean 
breath,  and  dream  of  far-away  tropic  isles  and  palm 
groves,  coral  reefs,  pirates  too,  and  all  the  delightful 
denizens  of  the  world  of  romance.  How  you  ought  to 
pity  me,  shut  up  in  poor,  dry,  dusty  Corindah  ! — the 
weather  going  from  bad  to  worse ;  Mother  and  Mr. 
Gateward  looking  more  woebegone  every  day ;  and  the 
poor  sheep  dying  at  such  a  rate  that  even  as  we  sit  in 
the  house  odours  are  wafted  towards  us  not  exactly  of 
Araby  the  Blest.      Bertie  calls  it  'bouquet  de  meri>w.' 

Who  is  Bertie  ?  Did  I  not  tell  you  before  ?  He  is 
the  English  cousin  that  has  come  to  live  with  us  and 
learn  how  to  make  a  fortune  by  keeping  sheep  in 
Australia.  '  What  is  he  like  ?  '  of  course  you  ask.  Well, 
he  is  not  a  great  many  things.  So  he  is  not  a  hero  of 
romance,  ready  made  for  the  consolation  of  your  poor 
friend  in  this  famine  year.  He  is  not  handsome,  nor 
tall,  nor  clever — that  is,  brilliantly  so.  Not  a  particular 
admirer  of  his  poor  Australian  cousin  either.  He  is 
very  cool  and  undemonstrative ;  lets  you  find  out  his 
talents  and  strong  points  by  degrees,  accidentally,  as  it 
were.  If  I  were  to  describe  him  more  accurately  than 
in  any  other  way  that  occurs  to  me,  I  should  say  he  is 
different  from  everybody  else  I  have  ever  seen  in  this 
colony — extremely  well  able  to  take  care  of  himself 
under  all  circumstances,  and  quite  careless  as  to  the 
effect  he  produces. 


io6  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chai'. 

He  is  very  well  educated — cultured,  I  might  say ; 
reads  and  speaks  French  and  German.  So,  as  we  have 
absolutely  nothing  to  do  in  the  evenings,  he  reads  with 
me,  and  I  get  on  a  great  deal  faster  than  any  of  us  did 
at  Miss  Watchtower's.  Vou  know  I  have  always  had  a 
passion  for  what  is  called  '  seeing  the  world ' ;  it  seems 
to  be  born  in  me,  and  I  can  recollect  when  I  was  quite 
a  little  thing  being  far  more  interested  in  books  of 
travel  than  any  other  reading.  I  really  believe  that  if 
anything  led  to  the  station  being  sold,  and  we  have  any 
money  left  after  these  frightful  droughts,  that  I  should 
persuade  mother  to  take  me  'home,'  as  we  Australians 
always  say,  and  then  have  a  good,  satisfactory,  leisurely 
prowl  over  Kurope.  Now,  do  you  see  what  I  am 
coming  to  ?  What  is  the  use  of  seeing  everything  in 
dumb  show?  I  intend  to  work  hard,  very  hard,  at 
languages  now  I  have  the  chance.  Then  I  shall  be  able 
to  enjoy  life  and  instruct  my  mind  fully  when  I  do  go 
abroad.  Abroad  I  Rome,  Paris,  l-lorcnce  !  The  idea 
is  too  ecstatic  altogether.  I  shall  die  if  it  is  not  realised. 
I  feel  as  if  I  should  die  of  joy  if  it  is. 

I  am  writing  at  my  little  table  in  my  bedroom.  As 
I  look  out  the  moonlight  makes  everything  as  clear  as 
day.  There  is  a  slight  breeze,  and  I  can  actually  see 
the  dust  as  it  rises  on  the  plain,  midwinter  though  it  is 
supposed  to  be.  I  couldn't  live  here  all  my  life,  now 
could  I  ?  Not  for  all  the  cattle  and  sheep  in  .Australia  ! 
1  don't  feel  inclined  to  go  to  bed.  lUit  I  suppose  I 
must  say  good-night  to  my  dearest  Clara,  and  remain 
your  too  lonely  friend,  I'oi.i.lK. 


IV  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  107 

After  the  first  month  or  two  of  the  excite- 
ment caused  by  the  arrival  of  a  '  new  chum  ' 
at  Corindah  on  the  experience  ticket,  as  the 
vernacular  of  the  West  Logan  had  it,  much  of 
the  mingled  curiosity,  doubt,  or  disapproval 
with  which  the  emigrant  gentleman  is  usually 
regarded  in  a  distant  provincial  circle  died 
away.  Of  this  last  attribute  of  the  neophyte 
Mr.  Devereux  had  incurred  but  little. 
Studiously  careful  of  speech,  habitually 
courteous  in  bearing,  and  wholly  indifferent 
to  general  opinion,  but  few  men  of  those 
with  whom  he  was  brought  into  contact 
could  find  anything  upon  which  to  found 
depreciatory  opinion.  The  utmost  that 
professional  carpers  and  cynics  could  aver 
amounted  merely  to  an  inability  to  'make 
him  out,'  as  they  phrased  it,  coupled  with  a 
lurking  suspicion  that  he  '  thought  himself  a 
deuced  deal  too  good  for  the  district  of  West 
Logan  and  the  people  that  belonged  to  it.' 

'  Confound  him  ! '  said  Bob  Barker,  who 
posed  as  a  leading  society  man  and  arbiter 
elegantiarwn,  '  what  right  has  he  to  come 
here  and  look  down  on  the  lot  of  us  as  if  we 
were  small   farmers   or   country   bumpkins } 


io8  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

Suppose  he  was  \\\  the  Guards,  there's 
nothing  so  wonderful  about  that.  I  know 
his  mother  was  a  lady  in  her  own  right,  but 
a  gentleman  is  only  a  gentleman,  and  other 
people  have  relatives  in  the  aristocracy  as 
well  as  him.' 

Here  Bob  twisted  his  moustache  and 
looketl  {jroudly  around  the  company — 
squatters,  magistrates,  and  others,  a  select 
party  of  whom,  this  being  Court  -  day  at 
Wannonbah,  had  assembled  in  llic  parlour 
of  the  principal  hotel. 

'Are  you  quite  sure  that  he  does  look 
down,  as  you  call  it,  upon  all  of  us  fellows, 
Barker,  or  did  you  only  think  it  was  t(;n  to 
one  he  would  .'^ '  said  one:  ot  the  assembled 
magistrates,  a  native-born  Australian,  with 
a  slow,  monotonous  intonation  whiih  did 
injustice  to  a  shrewd  intellect  and  kein  sense 
of  humour.  '  You  know  we  arc  rather  rusty, 
some  of  us.  \\'<'\e  been  so  long  away  from 
Ivngland.'  Here  the  s[jeaker  bestowed  a 
wink  (jf  preternatural  subtlety  upon  a  good- 
humourt-d  looking,  middle-agt:d  man  who 
occupi(;d  the  chair  at  the  head  of  the  table. 

'  Rusty  be  hanged!'  said  Mr.  Barker.     '  I 


IV  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  109 

could  go  home  and  take  my  position  in  society- 
to-morrow  as  if  I  had  never  left.  I  don't 
want  any  young  military  puppy  to  teach  me 
manners.' 

'But  what — did — he — do,  Barker?'  in- 
quired the  other  squatter  ;  '  or — what — did — 
he — say — that — put — your — monkey — up  ?  ' 

'  Well,  of  course  he  didn't  do  anything, 
and  as  for  saying,  he  was  infernally  polite  ; 
but  somehow  I  knew  by  the  quiet,  simple 
way  he  spoke  what  he  was  thinking  of.  And 
then,  when  we  were  playing  whist,  Atherstone 
and  I  with  Miss  Devereux  and  the  old  lady, 
he  looked  on  until  I  asked  if  he  was  approved 
of  our  play.  He  smiled  faintly,  and  then 
begged  to  know  whether  "  out  here  "  we  were 
always  in  the  habit  of  leading  from  our  longest 
suits  ?     I  could  have  kicked  him  on  the  spot.' 

'  But — perhaps — he — only — wanted — to 
— know,'  pursued  his  tormentor,  who  now 
appeared  honestly  desirous  of  extracting  in- 
formation. '  You're  — so  —  very —  smart  — 
Barker,  yourself — you — know.' 

'  Oh,  I  dropped  down  to  him,'  said  Barker. 
'They've  got  some  confounded  new-fangled 
way  of  calling  for  trumps  in  these  London 


no  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

clubs,  and  of  course,  like  all  ]-lnL;lish  people, 
he  thinks  we  never  hear  anything  or  read 
anything,  and  have  never  seen  any  society 
men  for  a  century  but  himself.  Why,  wasn't 
General  Hurstall  here  the  other  day  on  leave 
from  India?  Saw  my  brother  at  Simla  just 
the  week  he  left.  However,  wait  till  this 
season's  over.  That'll  take  some  of  the 
starch  out  of  him.' 

'  1  t'll — take — the — starch — out — of — some 
— of — us — too,'  replied  the  first  S[)eaker,  'if 
— it — doesn't — break — up — soon.  I  've — lost 
—  six  —  thousand  —  pounds  —  worth  —  of — 
cattle — already.  I*!verybody — says — your — 
frontage — looks — frightful — Har — kcr — eh  ? ' 

The  intense  gravity  and  slow  solemnity 
with  which  this  sudden  assault  was  performed 
upon  Mr.  Barker,  impugning  the  character  of 
his  run,  and  by  implication  his  probable  sol- 
vency, appeared  so  overpoweringly  ludicrous 
to  the  company,  that  a  diversion  was  effected 
in  favour  of  Mr.  I'arker's  pasturage,  who 
therefore  [jeriniucil  the  j)(.'rsnnal  questions  to 
lapse. 

Letter  from  r.<rlram  Devereu.x  to  Captain 
Goodwood,  6ih  Dragoon  Guards: — 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION 


CoRiNDAH,  New  South  Wales,  Australia, 
June  1877. 

My  dear  Charlie — Partly  on  account  of  a  weak 
promise  to  let  you  and  one  or  two  more  of  the  old  set 
into  the  secrets  of  my  other-world  life  when  I  said  good- 
bye after  that  fatal  Derby  that  proved  such  a  smasher, 
partly  because  one  has  such  enormous  quantities  of  spare 
time  in  the  desert  here,  I  am  going  to  produce  a  respect- 
able despatch— may  even  go  the  length  of  becoming  a 
regular  correspondent — while  quartered  here. 

My  jottings  down,  apart  from  any  personal  interest 
which  may  yet  survive  the  writer's  departure,  ought  to 
possess  a  certain  value  as  tidings  from  a  far  country — 
descriptions  of  a  mode  of  life  and  state  of  society  of 
which  no  one  I  ever  met  in  England  had  the  faintest 
idea.  It  is  odd,  too,  for  how  many  youngsters  from 
good  families  that  we  know  have  emigrated  within  the 
last  ten  years  !  And  with  one  or  two  exceptions  there 
was  no  gleaning  any  information  from  their  friends. 
Either  the  fellows  didn't  write  or  had  done  indifferently, 
and  so  the  less  said  the  better,  or  else  the  friends  hardly 
could  tell  whether  they  lived  in  Victoria,  Western 
Australia,  New  South  Wales,  or  Tasmania,  which  is 
much  as  if  the  whereabouts  of  a  continental  traveller 
should  be  described  as  indifferently  as  in  Belgium,  Berlin, 
Switzerland,  or  Sicily.  There  is  a  want  of  exactitude 
about  our  countrymen,  I  must  say,  in  all  matters  that  do 
not  concern  their  own  immediate  interests,  most  painful 
to  persons  gifted  with  a  love  of  method — like  you  and 
me,  for  instance.  No  wonder  we  English  are  always 
caught  unprepared  when  we  go  to  war,  and  get  laughed 


112  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

at  all  over  Europe — till  we  begin  to  fight,  that  is.  The 
reaction  sets  in  then. 

However,  rci'etwns  a  ttos  tnoutons  —  a  strictly 
appropriate  tag,  inasmuch  as  this  lodge  in  the  wilder- 
ness is  surrounded  by  enormous  estates,  leasehold,  not 
freehold,  by  the  way,  all  devoted  to  the  production 
of  the  merino  variety  of  the  ovine  family.  Millions 
of  them  are  bred  in  these  great  solitudes.  In 
favourable  years  I  gather  that  one  is  enabled  to 
export  about  one- half  to  a  fourth  of  their  value,  in 
the  shape  of  wool.  This  brings  a  good  price,  is  as 
negotiable  as  gold,  and  the  fortunes  of  the  returned 
colonists  that  we  used  to  sec  in  London  society  are 
thus  compiled.  Of  course  there  are  details,  the  which 
I  am  setting  my  mind  to  master.  But  they  would 
hardly  interest  you.  One  trifling  f;ict  I  may  mention, 
lest  you  may  imagine  the  progress  of  fortune-constructing 
too  ridiculously  easy.  It  is,  that  there  has  been  ne.xt  to 
no  rain  for  more  than  a  year,  strange,  almost  incredible, 
as  it  may  seem  to  you  of  the  rainy  isles.  In  consequence, 
the  country  locjks  like  a  desert,  and  tens  of  thousands  ot 
sheep  are  dying  here,  and  for  hundreds  of  miles  in  every 
direction.  Occurrences  of  this  kind,  you  will  understand, 
delay  indefinitely  and  perhaps  wholly  frustrate  one's  too 
obvious  purpose  of  gathering  a  competency  and  hurrying 
out  of  the  strange  country  as  fast  as  may  be. 

'  All  this  is  very  well,'  I  hear  you  say  ;  '  but  what 
about  the  social  system  ?  \N'hy  doesn't  he  tell  me 
about  furl — for  of  course  there  is  a  woman  somewhere 
within  the  orbit  of  his  existence.  Wonder  what  they're 
like  out  there.     Must  be  some,  I  suppose.' 

With  your  usual  a(  uteness,  which  I  have  rarely 
known  at  fault,  unless  confronted  by  a  jilain  unvarnished 


IV  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  113 

robbery  like  the  doing  to  death  of  the  favourite  (and 
very  nearly  the  backers)  in  our  fatal  year,  you  have  hit 
the  gold. 

Well,  somehow  or  other,  there  is  a  she.  How 
strange  it  seems  that  one's  life,  whether 

'  Pone  me  pigris  ubi  nulla  campis 
Arbor  cestiva  recreatur  aura,'  etc., 

or  in  the  midst  of  cities,  or  even  in  the  comparatively 
assured  and  fortified  privacy  of  a  messroom,  should 
never  be  wholly  free  from  the  invasion  of  womankind. 
A  book,  a  photograph,  a  souvenir  of  the  slightest  kind, 
is  sufficient  to  arouse  the  tempestuous  motives  of  those 
who  are  doomed  to  be  '  the  prey  of  the  gods '  in  this 
peculiar  fashion.  How  much  more  so  the  perfect 
human  form,  '  ripe  and  real,'  when  it  comes  before 
your  eyes  in  all  the  unconscious  temptation  of  virgin 
youth  and  beauty  scarce  unfolded  morning,  noon,  and 
night.  Add  to  this  that  I'm  at  present  habitans  in 
sicco,  and  you  will  conclude,  with  the  swift  logical 
subtlety  so  proverbially  yours,  that  as  a  latter-day 
hermit  I  may  compare  favourably  with  St.  Anthony. 

Heaven  knows  I  did  not  rush  into  danger.  Languid 
and  prostrated  as  I  was  after  the  overthrow  of  all  my 
worldly  hopes ;  worn  and  despairing  when  the  one 
devouring,  passionate  love  of  my  life  had  disappeared, 
and  it  was  like  the  last  scene  of  a  tragedy,  when 
nothing  is  left  for  the  spectators  but  to  wrap  their 
cloaks  around  them  and  go  home  —  I  deemed  that 
I  was  coming  to  a  land  where  there  were  no  women, 
except  black  ones  or  those  required  for  culinary 
purposes. 

How  little  we  know  of  these  new  lands  and  their 
I 


114  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiai-. 

inhabitants,  all  English  as  they  arc,  as  if  in  the  Midland 
Counties,  yet  of  manner  strangely  fresh  !  All  is  high 
development  and  new  material.  How  I  am  shut  up 
with  a  magnificent  young  creature,  with  a  face  like 
Kgeria,  and  a  figure  like  the  huntress  maid,  burning 
with  enthusiasm,  talented,  cultured,  full  of  all  noble 
feminine  attributes  ;  dangerous  with  the  fascinations  of 
fresh,  innocent  womanhood,  yet  ignorant  of  the  ways  of 
the  world,  and  cliildlikc  in  her  unsuspicious  confidence  ! 
How  I  wish  I  was  young  again!  I  do  really, 
Charlie.  Could  I  but  blot  out  the  years  that  have 
inter\-ened — not  so  many — but  what  Dead-Sea  fruits 
have  I  not  tasted  during  their  stormy  course?  What 
a  burnt -out  volcano  is  this  heart  of  mine!  Could  I 
but  recall  the  past  and  be  like  one  of  our  schoolboy 
heroes ! 

'  The  happy  pa^'c  wlio  was  the  lord 
Of  one  soft  heart  and  liis  own  sword.* 

What  empires  and  kingdoms  would  I  give — supposing 
them  to  be  mine — to  revert  to  that  position,  and  so 
prove  myself  worthy  of  the  fresh  heart,  the  petals  of 
which  are  about  to  open  before  my  graduated  advance, 
like  a  rose  in  June !  That  I  shall  be  the  favoured 
suitor,  despite  of  the  opposition  of  a  good-looking, 
stalwart,  provincial  rival,  my  experience  assures  me. 
With  women  rinconnu  is  always  the  interesting,  the 
romantic,  the  irresistible.  In  despite  of  myself,  I  can 
see  clearly  my  future  position  of  jtuite  premier  in  this 
ofHrra  of  the  wilderness.  It  might  be  worse,  you  will 
say.  That  I  grant.  Hut  you  know  that  Helen  of  Troy 
would  never  control  this  restless,  wayward  heart  of  mine 
in  perpetuity. 


IV  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  115 

For  the  rest,  the  life  is  bearable  enough,  free, 
untrammelled,  novel,  with  a  tinge  of  adventure.  My 
days  are  spent  in  the  saddle.  There's  just  a  hint  of 
shooting,  no  hunting,  no  fishing.  We  dress  for  dinner, 
and  live  much  as  at  a  shooting-lodge  in  the  Highlands, 
with  stock-riders  for  gillies.  So  we  are  not  altogether 
barbarous,  as  you  others  imagine.  This  letter  is  far 
too  long,  and  imprudently  confiding,  so  I  hasten  to 
subscribe  myself  yours,  as  of  old, 

Bertram  Devereux. 

So  much  for  the  impression  PolHe  was 
capable  of  producing  on  a  worn,  world-weary 
heart. 

It  was  a  strange  fate  which  had  thus 
imprisoned  this  beautiful  creature,  so  richly 
endowed  with  all  the  attributes  which  com- 
bine to  form  the  restless,  tameless,  unsatisfied 
man,  amid  surroundings  so  uninteresting  and 
changeless.  Eager  for  adventure,  even  for 
danger,  she  was  curious  with  a  child's  hunger- 
ing, insatiable  appetite  for  the  knowledge  of 
wondrous  lands,  cities,  peoples ;  hating  the 
daily  monotone  to  which  the  woman's  house- 
hold duties  are  necessarily  attuned.  Capable 
of  the  strongest,  the  most  passionate  attach- 
ments, yet  all-ignorant  as  yet  of  the  subtle, 


ii6  THE  CROOKED  STICK  cuap. 

sweet,  o'ermastcring  tone  of  the  workl-con- 
quering  harmony  of  love.  In  the  position 
to  which  she  appeared  immovably  attached 
by  circumstance,  she  seemed  like  a  strayed 
briyht-plumaged  bird,  a  foreign  captive,  taken 
in  infancy  and  reared  in  an  alien  land. 

A  chamois  in  a  sheepfold,  a  leopardess 
in  a  drawing-room,  a  red  deer  in  a  trim  and 
close- paled  enclosure,  could  not  have  been 
more  hopelessly  at  war  with  surroundings, 
more  incongruously  provided  with  food  and 
shelter.  Day  after  day  a  growing  discontent, 
a  hopeless  despair  of  life,  seemed  to  weigh 
her  down,  to  take  the  savour  from  existence, 
to  restrain  the  instinctive  sportiveness  of 
youth,  to  hush  the  spirit-song  of  praise  with 
which,  like  the  awakening  bird,  she  should 
have  welcomed  each  dawning  morn. 

'  Why  must  it  be  thus  .-*  '  she  often  asked 
herself  when,  restless  at  midnight  as  at  noon- 
day, she  gazed  from  Ik  r  window  across  the 
wide  star-lit  plain,  in  which  groups  of  melan- 
choly, swaying,  pale-hued  trees  seemed  to  be 
whispering  secrets  of  past  famine  years  or 
sighing  weirdly  over  sorrows  to  come, 

'Will    it   always    be    thus.-*'   thought   she, 


IV  OR  POLLJE'S  PROBATION  117 

'  and  is  my  life  to  trickle  slowly  along  like 
the  course  of  our  enfeebled  stream,  until  after 
long  assimilation  to  this  desert  dreariness 
I  become  like  one  of  the  house- mothers  I 
see  around  me  ?  Ignorant,  incurious,  narrow, 
with  an  intelligence  gradually  shrivelling  up 
to  the  dimensions  of  a  childhood  with  which 
they  have  nothing  else  in  common  !  What 
a  hateful  prospect !  What  a  death  in  life 
to  look  forward  to !  Were  it  not  for  my 
darling  mother  and  the  few  friends  I  may 
call  my  own,  I  feel  as  if  I  could  put  an  end 
to  an  existence  which  has  so  little  to  re- 
commend it,  so  pitiably  small  an  outlook.' 

In  all  this  outburst  of  capricious  discontent 
the  experienced  reader  of  the  world's  page 
will  perceive  nothing  more  than  the  instinct- 
ive, unwarranted  impatience  of  youth,  which 
in  man  or  woman  is  so  utterly  devoid  of 
reason  or  gratitude. 

What !  does  not  the  vast,  calm  universe 
wait  and  watch,  weak  railer  at  destiny,  for 
the  completion  of  '  Nature's  wondrous  plan,' 
counting  not  the  years,  the  seons,  as  the 
sands  of  the  sea,  that  intervene  between 
promise    and    fulfilment  ?      Hast    thou    not 


ii8  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

enjoyed  ease,  love  unwearying,  anxious 
tendance,  from  the  dawn  of  th)-  lielpless,  as 
yet  useless  being ;  and  while  all  creation 
suffers  and  travails,  canst  thou  not  endure 
the  unfolding  of  thy  fated  lot  ? 

Applying,  possibly,  some  such  remedies 
to  her  menial  ailment,  life  appeared  to  go 
on  at  Corindah  much  as  it  had  done,  PoUie 
thought,  since  the  earliest  days  she  could 
remember  as  a  tiny  girl.  She  could  almost 
have  supposed  that  the  same  things  had 
been  said  by  the  sanie  people,  or  people  very 
like  them,  since  her  babyhood.  Wonderings 
whether  it  would  rain  soon,  by  the  mildl)- 
expectant ;  doubts  whether  it  would  ever 
rain  again,  by  the  scoffers  and  unbelievers  ; 
assertions  that  the  seasons  had  changed,  by 
the  pro[)hets  of  evil  ;  superhcial,  sanguine 
predictions  thai  it  would  rain  some  day,  by 
ihe  light-minded  ;  hope  and  inisling  con- 
fidence in  lh(t  (ircat  Ruler,  1)\-  the  tlevout, 
ihal  lie  would  not  suller  his  peo[jle  to  be 
ullerly  cast  ilown  and  forsaken,  that  the 
dumb  creatures  of  His  hand  would  have  a 
bound  set  to  their  sufferings — all  these  things 
had    she    heard    and    experienced    h'om    lime 


IV  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  119 

to  time  ever  since  she  could  recall  herself 
as  a  conscious  entity.  Then  after  a  less 
or  greater  interval  the  blessed  rain  of  heaven 
would  fall,  plenteously,  excessively,  perhaps 
superfluously,  without  warning,  without  limit, 
and  the  long  agony  of  the  drought  would 
be  over. 

Something  of  this  sort  had  Pollie  been 
saying  to  her  cousin,  as  they  sat  at  breakfast 
one  gusty,  unsettled,  red-clouded  morning. 
He  had  been  inquiring  satirically  whether  it 
ever  rained  at  Corindah. 

'  He  had  been  here  six  months  and  had 
never  seen  any.  Would  all  the  sheep  die  ? 
Would  all  the  watercourses  dry  up  ?  Would 
they  all  be  forced  to  abandon  the  station  ? 
And  was  this  a  sample  of  Australia  and  its 
vaunted  bush  life  ?  ' 

'Things  are  not  quite  so  bad  generally,' 
laughed  Pollie ;  '  though  I  cannot  deny  that 
in  these  months,  unless  the  weather  changes, 
it  will  be  what  you  call  a  "  blue  look-out," 
Poor  mother  is  more  anxious  every  week, 
and  Mr.  Gateward's  face  is  becoming  fixed 
in  one  expression,  like  that  of  a  bronze  idol.' 

'  It  hardly  seems  like  a  laughing  matter,' 


THE  CROOKED  STICK  cnAi', 


said  he  gravely.  '  The  loss  of  the  labour  of 
years,  of  a  fortune,  and  then  "  Que  fairc  ?  "  ' 

'  I  am  lauohingr  in  faith.'  retorted  Pollie ; 
'  so  that  really  I  am  in  a  more  religious  frame 
of  mind  than  all  the  solemn-faced  people  who 
despair  of  God's  goodness.  Of  course,  it 
will  rain  some  time  or  other.  It  might  even 
rain  to-nii^ht,  though  it  does  not  look  the  least 
like  it.     Again,  it  might  not  rain  for  a  year.' 

'What  a  terribly  incomprehensible  state 
of  matters  to  exist  in!'  said  Bertram.  '  I  little 
thought,  when  I  grumbled  at  a  rainy  week 
in  England,  what  blessings  in  disguise  I  was 
undervaluing.  And  wliat  would  be  the  case 
if  a  small  deluge  took  place  .-^ ' 

'  All  the  rivers  would  be  in  lluod.  A  few 
shepherds  and  mail-men,  poor  fellows!  would 
be  drowned,  and  the  whole  North  -  West 
country,  say  a  thousand  miles  s(juarc.  would 
be  one  luxuriant  prairie  of  grass  nearly  as 
high  as  your  luad.  Mr.  Ciateward  would 
sing  for  joy  as  far  as  his  musical  disabilities 
would  permit  him;  and  poor  mother's  bank 
account  would  bc^  nearly  lw(iu\'  thousand 
pounds  on  the  right  side  wilhiu  a  tew  weeks.' 

'  And  the  sheep.-* ' 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION 


'  A  few  hundreds  would  die — the  wet  and 
cold  would  kill  them,  being  weak.  All  the 
rest  would  wax  fat,  and  perhaps  kick  in  a 
month.' 

'  Truly  wonderful !  I  must  take  your  word 
literally,  but  really  I  should  hardly  believe 
any  one  else.' 

'You  may  always  believe  me,'  the  girl 
said  proudly,  as  she  stood  up  and  faced  him, 
with  raised  head  and  erect  form,  her  bright 
blue  eyes  fixed  steadfastly  upon  his,  and 
almost  emitting  a  flash,  it  seemed  to  him, 
from  their  steady  glow.  '  Promise  me  that 
every  word  I  say  shall  be  accepted  by  you 
as  the  absolute,  unalterable  truth,  or  I  shall 
speak  to  you  no  more  about  my  native  land, 
or  anything  else.' 

'  I  promise,'  he  said,  taking  her  hand  in 
his  own  and  reverently  bowing  over  it ;  'and 
now  I  am  going  for  a  long  ride,  to  the  outer 
well  ;   I  must  be  off.' 

'  To  Durbah,  forty  miles  and  more  ? '  she 
said.  '  Why  did  not  you  make  an  earlier 
start  ?     What  are  you  going  to  ride  }  ' 

'  Wongamong,'  he  said.  '  He  is  a  wonder- 
ful goer,  and  seems  quieter  than  he  was.' 


122  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

'  He  is  a  treacherous,  bad-tempered  brute,' 
she  returned  answer,  rather  quickly,  '  and 
nothing  will  ever  make  him  quiet.  Besides,  I 
think  there's  some  break  of  weather  coming 
on.  The  wind  has  changed  for  the  third  time 
since  sunrise,  and  the  clouds  are  banking 
up  fast  lo  the  west.  We  might  have  a 
storm.' 

'What  fun ! 'said  the  I'^nglishman;  T  should 
like  it  of  all  things.  The  climate  here  does 
not  seem  to  have  energy  enough  for  a  right 
down  good  storm.' 

'  You  don't  know  what  you  are  talking 
about,'  she  said  ;  '  you  haven't  seen  a  storm, 
or  a  flood,  or  a  bush-fire,  or  anything.  Take 
my  advice  and  ride  a  steady  horse  to-day. 
Something  tells  me  you  might  want  one. 
Promise  me  that  you  will.  ' 

There  was  an  unusual  earnestness  in  llu- 
girl's  voice  as  she  spoke,  as,  placing  her 
hand  on  his  shouhh-r,  she  looked  in  his  fice. 
A  low  muttering  hjH  ol  thunder  seemed  to 
accentuate  her  appeal.  The  young  man 
smiled,  as  he  answered,  'My  (U.-arest  Pollie, 
I  should  i)e  sorry  to  nlusc  \\\v.  slightest 
request  so  llatleringly  in  my  iiUcrcsl  :    I    will 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION 


seek  me  a  charger  practised  in  tlie  vi^nage 
in  place  of  the  erratic  Wongamong.' 

In  a  few  minutes  more,  as  she  stood  by 
the  open  window,  she  saw  him  ride  through 
the  outer  gate  on  a  dark  bay  horse,  whose 
elastic  stride  and  powerful  frame  showed 
him  to  be  one  of  those  rare  combinations  of 
strength,  speed,  and  courage,  of  which  the 
great  Australian  land  holds  no  inconsiderable 
number. 

'  Dear  old  Guardsman  !  I'm  so  glad  that 
he  took  him.  I  didn't  know  that  he  was  in. 
I  wonder  what  makes  me  so  nervous  to-day. 
It  surely  cannot  be  going  to  rain,  or  is  there 
an  earthquake  imminent  ?  I  believe  in  pre- 
sentiments, and  if  the  day  is  like  the  others 
we  have  had  this  year,  I  never  shall  do  so 
again.     There  goes  another  clap  of  thunder ! ' 

That  morning  was  spent  by  Pollie 
Devereux,  it  must  be  confessed,  in  a  manner 
so  aimless,  so  inconsistent  with  her  mother's 
fixed  principles  on  the  score  of  regular 
employment  for  young  women,  that  it  drew 
forth  more  than  one  mild  reproach  from 
that  kindly  matron. 

'  My  dear,  I  can't  bear  to  see  you  going 


124  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

about  from  one  room  to  another  without 
scttHnj^  to  anything.  Can  you  not  sit  clown 
to  your  work,  or  practise,  or  go  on  with 
some  historical  reading,  or  your  French,  in 
which  Bertram  says  you  are  making  such 
progress  ?     You're  wasting  your  time  sadly.' 

'  Mother  ! '  said  her  daughter,  facing  round 
upon  her  with  mock  defiance,  'could  you  sit 
dcjwn  to  your  work  if  there  was  going  to  be 
a  shipwreck,  or  a  cyclone,  or  a  great  battle 
fought  on  the  plain  ?  Though,  really,  you 
good  old  mother.  1  think  you  would,  and 
thread  your  needle  till  the  Kountlheads 
marched  in  at  the  outer  gate,  as  they  did  in 
"The  Lay  of  l)ritomart,"  or  took  down  the; 
slip-rails,  as  it  would  be  in  our  case.  lUit  do 
you  know,  then;  is  an  electrical  current  in 
the  air,  I  am  sure,  and  so  I,  being  of  a  more 
e.xcitable  nature,  do  really  feel  so  aroused 
and  e.xcitcd,  that  1  can't  kcxq)  (juict.  Some- 
thing is  going  t<j  happen.' 

'  Now,  my  dearest  Pollic,  are  not  you 
letting  your  imagination  run  away  with  you  ? 
What  can  happen.'*  There  ma)  he  a  litlk; 
wind  and  rain — what  the  shepherds  call  "a 
nice  storm  "-  but  nothing  else,  1  fear.' 


IV  UR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  125 

'"Something  wicked  this  way  comes,'" 
chanted  PolHe,  putting  herself  into  a 
dramatic  attitude.  '  See  how  dark  it  is 
growing !  Look  at  the  hghtning !  Oh, 
dear,  what  a  flash  !  And  down  comes  the 
rain  at  last — in  earnest,  too.' 

'  The  rain  will  have  to  be  very  earnest, 
my  dear,'  said  Mrs.  Devereux,  'before  poor 
Corindah  feels  the  benefit  of  it — though  that 
certainly  is  a  heavy  shower.  Early  in  the 
season  too ;  this  is  only  the  8th  of 
February.  There  is  the  lunch-bell.  Come 
along,  my  dear.  A  little  lunch  will  do  you 
good.' 

'How  wet  poor  Bertram  will  be!'  said 
Pollie,  pityingly.  '  He  said  we  couldn't  have 
storms  here.' 


CHAPTER   V 

During  the  half  hour  bestowed  on  kinch 
the  weather  apparently  devoted  itself  to 
falsify inj;  Mrs.  Devereux's  prediction,  and 
raising  Pollie  to  the  position  of  a  prophetess. 
It  is  a  curious  fact  that  in  Australia  few 
people  are  weather-wise.  No  one  can  tell, 
for  instance,  with  any  certainty,  when  it  will 
rain.  No  one  can  say  with  precision  when 
it  will  not  rain.  All  other  forms  of  weather, 
be  it  understood,  are  ininialerial.  Rain  means 
everything — peace,  plnily,  prospt  rii\',  the 
potentiality  of  boundless  wealth  ;  the  want 
of  it  lo.sses  and  cros.ses,  sin,  suffering,  and 
starvation.  Vor  nearly  two  years  the  hearts 
of  ihe  dwellers  in  thai  vast  pastoral  region 
had  b("en  made  sick  with  hope  deferred. 
Now,  without  wanliIlL,^  whh  no  j)articular 
indication    of  chang<;    Iroin    the    long,    warm 


CHAP.  V  THE  CROOKED  STICK  127 

days  and  still,  cloudless  nights  that  seemed 
as  if  they  would  never  end,  that  earth  would 
gradually  become  desiccated  into  a  grave  of 
all  living  creatures,  suddenly  it  commenced  to 
rain  as  if  to  reproduce  the  Noachian  deluge. 

The  larger  creeks  bore  a  turgid  tide,  level 
with  their  banks,  on  the  surface  of  which 
tree  -  stems  and  branches,  with  differing 
samples  of  debris,  whirled  floating  down. 

As  the  hours  passed  by  with  no  abate- 
ment of  violence  in  the  falling  of  the  rain  or 
the  fury  of  the  storm,  in  which  the  wind  had 
arisen,  and  raged  with  tempestuous  fury  in 
the  darkened  sky,  a  feeling  of  awe  and  alarm 
crept  over  the  minds  of  the  two  women, 

'  There  is  not  a  soul  about  the  place,  I 
believe,'  said  Mrs.  Devereux  ;  '  Mr,  Gateward 
is  away,  and  every  man  and  boy  with  him. 
During  all  the  years  I  have  been  here  I 
have  never  seen  such  a  storm.  Poor 
Bertram !  I  hope  he  has  taken  shelter 
somewhere.  This  cold  rain  is  enough  to 
kill  him,  with  such  thin  clothing  as  he  has 
on.  But  of  course  he  will  stay  at  Baradeen  ; 
it  would  be  madness  to  come  on.' 

*  He  said  that  he  would  be  home  to-night, 


128  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiai-. 

wet  or  dry.  Those  were  his  hist  words,  and 
he's  rather  obstinate.  Haven't  you  remarked 
that,  mother  ? ' 

'  I  am  afraid  he  is.  It  runs  in  the  blood,' 
the  elder  remarked,  with  a  sioh.  '  Init  there 
will  be  no  danj^er  unless  the  W'awanoo 
Creek  is  u[).  It  never  rises  unless  the  river 
does,  and  there's  not  rain  enough  for  that.' 

'  There  seems  rain  enough  for  anything,' 
said  the  girl,  shuddering.  'Hark!  how  it 
is  pouring  down  now.  It  will  be  dark  in  an 
hour.      1  d(j  wish  llcrtram  was  home.' 

The  creek  alluded  to  was  a  ra\iiu:  of  con- 
siderable size  and  de[)th,  which,  serving  as 
one  of  the  anabranches  of  the  river,  was 
rarely  filled  except  in  Hood  time,  when  it  acted 
as  a  canal  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  off  the 
superfluous  water.  Now  it  was  almost  dry, 
and  ajjparently  would  remain  so.  It  could 
be  distinctly  st^en  from  the  windows  of  the 
room  where  they  were  silling. 

At  a  sudden  cry  from  the  girl  Mrs. 
Devereux  went  to  the  window.  'What  a 
wonder  of  wonders!'  she  said;  '  ihe  W'awa- 
noo  is  coming  down.  The  J^aling  fence  in 
the  llat  has  been  carried  away.' 


V  OR  POLLJE'S  PROBATION  129 

The  fence  alluded  to  was  a  high  and  close 
palisade  across  a  portion  of  the  flat,  down 
which  ran  one  of  the  channels  of  the  said 
Wawanoo  Creek.  An  unusual  body  of  rain, 
falling  apparently  during  one  of  the  thunder- 
showers,  had  completely  submerged  the 
valley,  which,  narrowing  above  the  said  fence, 
and  being  dammed  back  by  it,  finally  over- 
bore it,  and  rushed  down  the  main  channel 
of  the  creek  in  a  yeasty  flood. 

'  The  creek  will  be  twenty  feet  deep  where 
the  road  crosses  it  now,'  said  Pollie.  '  If  he 
comes  to  it  he  will  have  to  swim.  He  will 
never  think  of  its  being  so  deep,  and  he 
might  be  drowned.  I  knew  something  would 
happen.  What  a  lucky  thing  he  took  Guards- 
man ! ' 

As  she  spoke  her  mother  pointed  to  a  spot 
where  the  track  crossed  the  creek.  The  road 
itself  was  now  plainly  marked  as  a  sepia- 
coloured,  brown  line  winding  through  the 
grassless,  herbless,  grey  levels  of  the 
drought-stricken  waste.  A  horseman  was 
riding  at  speed  along  the  clearly  printed  track, 
through  the  misty  lines  of  fast-falling  rain. 

'It  is  Bertram  coming  back,'  cried  Pollie. 

K 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


*  I  know  Guardsman's  long  stride  ;  how  he  is 
throwintj  the  dirt  behind  him  !  I  wouldn't 
mind  the  ride  myself  if  I  had  an  old  habit  on. 
It  must  be  great  fun  to  be  as  wet  as  he  must 
be,  and  to  know  one  cannot  be  any  worse. 
Do  you  think  he  will  try  to  swim  the 
creek  .-^ ' 

'  He  does  not  seem  to  dream  of  pulling 
up,'  said  Mrs.  Devereux.  'Wry  likely  he 
thinks  it  can't  be  deep  when  he  crossed 
dry-shod  this  morning.' 

'Oh,  look!'  cried  the  girl,  with  a  long- 
drawn  inspiration.  '  He  has  ridden  straight 
in  without  stopping.  What  a  plunge  !  They 
are  both  over  head  and  cars  in  it.  But 
Guardsman  swims  well.  Mr.  (iateWcU'd  told 
me  he  saw  him  in  the  last  flood,  when  he  was 
only  a  colt.  I  can  see  his  head  ;  how  he 
shakes  it !  Gallant  old  fellow  !  And  there  is 
Bertram  sitting  as  quietly  as  if  he  was  on  dry 
land.  They  will  be  carried  down  lower,  but 
it  is  good  shelving  land  on  this  side.  Now 
they  are  out,  rather  staggering,  but  safe. 
Thank  God  for  that !  Oh,  mother  are  you 
not  glad } ' 

As  Burirain  and  the  brown  made  joint  en 


V  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  131 

trance  to  the  square  opposite  the  stable-yard, 
dripping  Hke  a  sea-horse  bestridden  by  a 
merman,  he  saw  a  feminine  figure  in  the  ver- 
andah of  the  barracks  gesticulating  wildly  to 
him,  and  in  a  fashion  demanding  to  be  heard. 

'  Mother  says  you  are  to  come  in  directly 
and  change  your  clothes  and  take  something 
hot,  and  not  to  stay  out  a  moment  longer  than 
you  can  help.' 

'  I  must  see  Guardsman  made  snue  first,' 
answered  the  young  man,  with  the  same  im- 
movable quiet  voice,  in  which  not  the  slightest 
inflection  betrayed  any  hint  of  unusual  risk. 
'  I  really  couldn't  answer  it  to  my  conscience 
to  turn  him  out  to-night.  I  won't  be  long, 
however.' 

*  When  it  does  rain  here  it  rains  hard,  I 
must  admit ! '  said  Mr.  Devereux  an  hour 
afterwards,  as,  completely  renovated  and 
very  carefully  attired,  he  presented  himself  at 
dinner.  '  Could  not  have  imagined  such  a 
transformation  scene  of  earth  and  sky.  The 
plain  has  become  a  gigantic  batter  pudding, 
and  the  ludicrous  attempt  at  a  brook — the 
Wawanoo  Creek — is  a  minor  Mississippi.      I 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


thought  the  old  horse  would  have  been  swept 
right  down  once.' 

'  You  will  find  our  rivers  and  some  other 
Australian  matters  are  not  to  be  laughed  at,' 
answered  Pollie.  with  a  heightened  colour. 
•  Hut  mother  and  I  are  too  glad  to  see  you 
back  safe  to  scold  you  for  anything  you  might 
say  to-night.' 

'  Really  I  feel  quite  heroic,'  he  answered, 
with  a  smile  which  was  rarely  bestowed  with 
so  much  kindness ;  '  I  suppose  people  are 
drowned  now  and  then.' 

'  I  should  think  so,'  said  Pollie.  '  Do  you 
remember  that  poor  young  Clarence,  Irom 
Amhurst,  two  or  three  years  ago  .-^  lie  was 
very  anxious  to  get  to  the  I)indera  station, 
where  they  were  having  a  j^arty  ;  he  was  told 
the  creek  was  dangerous,  but  would  try.  1 1  is 
horse  got  caught  in  a  log  or  sonulhi ng,  and 
came  over  with  him.  1  le  was  drowned,  and 
carri('d  into  the  lliii<l«r,i  house  next  morning 
a  corpse.' 

'  Very  .sad.  I>ut  men  must  drop  in  life's 
battle  now  and  then.  I'Ikti-  would  i)c  loo 
many  of  us  lellows  els(!  "crawling  between 
earth  and  heaven,"  as  iiamlet  says.' 


V  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  133 

'What  a  cold-blooded  way  to  talk!'  said 
Pollie;  'but  of  course  you  really  do  not  think 
so.  Think  of  quitting  life  suddenly  with  all 
its  pleasures.' 

'Pleasures?'  replied  Mr.  Devereux  abruptly. 
'  Yes  !  I  daresay  very  young  persons  look  at 
it  in  that  light.  After  all  it's  quite  a  lottery 
like  other  games  of  pitch  and  toss.  Some- 
times the  backers  have  it  all  their  own  way. 
Then  comes  a  "fielder's"  year,  and  the  first- 
named  are  obliterated.' 

'  Then  do  you  really  think  life  is  only 
another  name  for  a  sort  of  Derby  Day  on  a 
large  scale,  or  a  Grand  National  ,'^'  demanded 
Pollie,  with  a  shocked  expression  of  counte- 
nance— -'  at  the  end  of  which  one  man  is 
borne  in  a  shining  hero,  aglow  with  triumph, 
while  another  breaks  his  neck  over  the  last 
leap,  or  loses  fame  and  fortune  irrevocably  ; 
and  that  neither  can  help  the  appointed  lot?' 

Her  cousin  regarded  her  for  a  moment 
with  a  fixed  and  searching  gaze.  Then  a 
ripple  of  merriment  broke  over  his  features, 
and  a  rarely  seen  expression  of  frank  admira- 
tion succeeded  to  the  ordinary  composure  of 
his  visage.      '  I  don't  go  quite  as  far  as  that. 


134  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

"  There's  a  divinity  that  shapes  our  ends, 
Rough-hew  thcin  how  wc  will.'' 

Hut  I  am  afraid  few  of  us  live  as  if  we  thought 
so.  That  ever  I  should  have  found  myself 
in  Australia  was  at  one  time  so  unlikely, 
so  all  hut  impossible,  that  I  may  well  be- 
lieve in  the  interposition  of  a  Ruler  of 
Events.' 

'  1  believe  they've  had  rain,'  is  the  usual 
answer  to  him  who  '  speirs '  in  Australia  as 
to  the  pastoral  welfare  of  a  particular  pnnince, 
district,  or  locality.  It  is  unnecessary  to  say 
more.  '  Man  wants  but  liitK:  here  below  '  is 
comparatively  true;  but  a  short  supply  of  the 
aqueous  lluid  on  land  parallels  in  its  destruc- 
tive effects  the  over  abundance  at  sea. 
When  the  rain  is  withlu:ld  lor  a  year  or  two 
years,  as  the  case  may  be,  losses  accumulate, 
and  ruin  stalks  on  apace.  The  severity  of 
the  acknowledged  droughts,  not  merely 
accidental  drynesses,  is  com]);u"ali\'e,  and  is 
often  matter  of  conversation. 

•This  is  the  worst  drought  known  for 
maiu'  years.'  w.is  remarked  to  a  young  but 
war  worn  pioneer. 


V  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  135 

'  Pretty  well,  but  not  equal  to  that  of  187-,' 
he  made  answer. 

'  Why  do  you  think  so  ?' 

'When  that  drought  commenced,'  he  said 
slowly,  'we  had  nine  thousand  head  of  cattle 
on  our  run  on  the  Darwin,  When  it  broke  up 
we  mustered  sixteen  hundred,  and  on  foot 
too :  we  had  not  had  a  horse  to  ride  for 
eighteen  months.' 

From  such  merciless  disaster  was  Corindah 
now  saved.  Prosperity  was  assured  for  at 
least  two  years,  as  well  to  that  spacious 
property  which  comprehended  290,000  acres 
(and  not  a  bad  one  among  them,  as  Mr. 
Gateward  was  fond  of  asserting)  as  to  a 
hundred  similar  pastoral  leaseholds  from  the 
Macquarie  to  the  Darr.  An  entirely  new 
state  of  matters  had  suddenly  arisen.  In  all 
directions  telegraphic  messages  were  speeding 
through  space,  withdrawing  this  lot  of  20,000 
ewes  or  that  of  a  thousand  store  bullocks 
from  sale  ;  while  eager  forecasting  operators 
like  Mr.  Jack  Charteris  had  swept  up  the 
supply  of  saleable  sheep,  and  left  their  more 
cautious  comrades  lamenting  their  inability 
to  purchase  except  at  prices  which  '  left  no 


136  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

margin.'  the  alternative  being  to  have  tens  of 
thousands  of  acres  of  waving  prairie  'going 
to  waste '  for  want  of  stock  to  eat  it.  The 
face  of  Nature  had  indeed  changed.  Within 
a  fortniL;ht  ihc-  arid  dusty  i)lains.  so  barren  of 
aspect,  wltc  carpeted  with  a  green  mantle, 
wondrously  vivid  of  hu(?  and  rapid  of  growth. 
The  creek  ran  musically  murmuring  towards 
the  river,  which  itself  'came  down,'  a  tawny, 
turbid  stream  bank  high,  and  in  places  over- 
flowing into  long  dry  lagoons  and  lakelets. 
Even  the  birds  of  the  air  seemed  to  be 
apprised  of  the  wondrous  atmospheric  change. 
Great  flocks  of  wild-fowl  soared  in,  migrating 
from  undreamed  of  central  wastes.  The 
lakelets  and  the  river  reaches  were  alive  with 
the  heron  and  the  egret.  The  bird  of  the 
wilderness,  with  giant  beak  and  sweeping 
wing,  was  there  in  battalions ;  while  the 
roar  of  wings  whi-n  a  cloiul  of  wild-fowl 
rose;  from  water  was  like  a  discharge  of 
artillery. 

Bertram  1  )evcreu.K  was,  in  his  heart,  truly 
astonished  at  the  wondrous  change  wrought 
in  ihe  .)iii\var<l  apj)ear.uu;e  ol  the  region,  in 
ihe    ni, inner    and     bearing     ol     llie     duellers 


V  OR  FOLLIE'S  PROBATION  137 

therein,  in  the  tone  of  the  leading  newspapers, 
in  everybody's  plans,  position,  and  prospects, 
which  had  been  wrought  by  so  simple  and 
natural  an  agent.  He,  however,  carefully 
preserved  his  ordinary  incurious,  impassive 
immobility,  and  after  casually  remarking  that 
this  M'as  evidently  one  of  the  lands  known 
to  the  author  of  the  Arabian  NiorJits,  and 
that  somebody  had  been  rubbing  the  magic 
lamp,  and  commanded  a  genie  to  fetch  a  few 
million  tons  of  water  from  Ireland  or  Upper 
India,  where  it  was  superfluous,  and  deliver  it 
here,  made  no  other  observation,  but  rode 
daily  with  Mr.  Gateward  over  the  sodden, 
springing  pastures,  wading  through  the  over- 
flowing marshes,  and  swimming  the  dangerous 
creeks  '  where  ford  there  was  none,'  as  if  he 
had  always  expected  the  West  Logan  to  be 
akin  to  the  west  of  Ireland  as  to  soil  and 
climate,  and  was  not  disappointed  in  his 
expectation. 

On  the  morning  after  the  flood  Harold 
Atherstone  had  betaken  himself  to  the 
metropolis,  only  to  be  forestalled  by  Jack 
Charteris  in  his  rapid  and  comprehensive 
purchases  of  stock.      Doubtless  other  pastoral 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


personages  had  been  duly  informed  by  the 
magic  wire  of  the  momentous  change,  but 
even  then,  such  had  been  the  terror,  the 
suftering,  the  dire  endurance  of  every  evil 
ot  a  twofold  ruin,  that  numbers  of  owners 
were  found  willing  to  sell  their  advertised 
sheep  at  a  very  slight  advance  upon  the 
pre-pluvial  prices.  So  might  they  be  assured 
of  the  solvency  and  security  which  they  had 
dreaded  would  never  be  theirs  acjain.  So 
might  they  again  lay  their  heads  on  their 
pillow  at  night,  thanking  God  for  all  His 
mercies,  and  for  the  safety  of  the  future  of 
those  dear  to  them.  So  might  they  again 
be  enabled  to  go  forth  among  their  fellow- 
men,  strong  in  the  consciousness  that  the 
aching  dread,  the  long-deferred  hope,  the 
dark  despair  slowly  creeping  on  like  some 
dimly  seen  but  implacable  beast  of  prey,  were 
things  of  the  past,  |)hantoms  and  shadows 
to  be  banished  lor  ever  from  their  uiih. united 
lives. 

All  these  but  lale-l)-  altered  circumstances 
were  distinctly  in  favour  of  a  t]uick  and 
decisive  operator,  as  was  llaiold  Aiheisionc 
when    he  "saw  his  way.'      i\ol  a  |)lunger  like 


V  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  139 

Jack  Charteris,  he  was  firm  and  rapid  of 
evolution  when  he  had  distinctly  demonstrated 
his  course  of  action.  So  when  he  returned 
to  Maroobil  after  a  month's  absence,  he  had 
as  many  sheep  on  the  road,  at  highly  paying 
prices,  as  would  keep  that  'well-known 
fattening  station '  and  Corindah  besides  in 
grass -eaters  for  many  a  month  to  come. 
Mrs.  Devereux  was  full  of  gratitude  towards 
him  for  managing  her  delegated  business  so 
safely  and  promptly,  and  again  and  again 
declared  that  there  was  no  living  man  like 
Harold  Atherstone.  He  was  always  to  be 
relied  on  in  the  hour  of  need.  He  never 
made  mistakes,  or  was  taken  in,  or  forgot 
things,  or  procrastinated,  like  other  men. 
When  he  said  he  would  do  a  thing,  that 
thing  was  done,  if  it  was  in  the  compass  of 
mortal  man  to  do  it. 

'  In  short,'  said  Pollie,  before  whom  and 
for  whose  benefit  and  edification  this  effusive 
statement  was  made,  *in  short,  he  is  perfection 
— a  man  without  a  fault.  What  a  pity  it  is 
that  paragons  are  never  attractive  ! ' 

'  Beware  of  false  fires,  my  darling,'  said 
the    tender    mother — '  misleading:    lights    of 


I40  THE  CROOKED  STICK  cuAr. 

feeling  apart  from  reason,  wliich  are  apt  to 
wreck  the  trusting,  and  to  end  in  despairing 
darkness.' 

Among  the  visitors  to  Corindah,  wlio 
made  at  least  a  bi-monthly  call,  was  the 
Honourable  Hector  MacCalluin,  M.L.C. 

1  Ic  was  a  prosperous  bachelor,  verging  on 
middle  age,  with  several  good  stations,  and 
an  enviable  power  of  leaving  them  in  charge 
of  managers  and  overseers,  while  he  disported 
himself  in  the  pleasantest  spots  of  the  adjacent 
colonies,  or  indeed  wheresoever  he  listed — 
sometimes  even  in  Tasmani.i,  where  he  was 
famed  for  his  picnics,  four-in-hand  driving, 
and  liberality  in  entertaining.  In  that 
favoured  isle,  where  maidens  fair  do  so 
greatly  preponderate,  Mr.  MacCallum  might 
have  brought  back  a  wile  from  any  of  his 
summer  trips  ;  and  lew  would  have  asserted 
that  the  damsel  honoured  by  his  choice  was 
other  than  among  the  fairest  and  sweetest  of 
that  rose-garden  of  girls. 

i>ut  then  something  alw.iys  prevented  him. 
Il(  wanted  to  go  to  New  Zealand.  li  was 
impossible  to  stittli!  down  ixloi-e  he  had  sei-n 
ihe    \^()^d(■^^,   ot    that    wondeilaiid      ilic   pliik 


V  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  141 

and-white  terraces,  the  geysers,  the  paradisiacal 
gardens,  the  Eves  that  flitted  through  the 
'  rata '  thickets,  the  fountains  that  dripped 
and  flashed  through  the  hush  of  midnight. 
Something  was  always  incomplete.  He 
would  come  aofain.  And  more  than  one  fair 
cheek  grew  pale,  and  bright  eyes  lost  their 
lustre,  ere  the  inconstant  squatter  prince  was 
heralded  anew. 

But  now  it  seemed  as  if  the  goodly  fish, 
which  had  so  often  drawn  back  and  dis- 
appeared, was  about  to  take  the  bait. 

Mr.  MacCallum's  visits  were  apparently 
accidental.  He  happened  to  be  in  that  part 
of  the  country,  and  took  the  opportunity  of 
calling.  He  was  on  his  way  to  Melbourne 
or  Sydney,  and  was  sure  he  could  execute  a 
commission  for  Mrs.  Devereux  or  Miss  Pollie. 
This,  of  course,  involved  a  visit  on  the  way 
back.  He  was  a  good-looking,  well-preserved 
man,  so  that  his  forty  odd  years  did  not  put  him 
at  much  disadvantage,  if  any,  when  he  came 
into  competition  with  younger  men.  Indeed, 
it  is  asserted  by  the  experienced  personages 
of  their  own  sex  that  young  girls  are  in 
general  not  given  to  undervalue  the  attentions 


142  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

of  men  older  than  themselves.  It  flatters 
their  vanity  or  gratifies  their  seH-esteem  to 
discover  that  their  callow  charms  and  un- 
developed intellects,  so  lately  emancipated 
from  the  prosaic  thraldom  of  the  schoolroom, 
suftice  to  attract  men  who  have  seen  the 
world  —  have,  perhaps,  borne  themselves 
'  manful  under  shield '  in  the  battlefield  of 
life,  have  struck  hard  in  grim  conflicts  where 
quarter  is  neither  given  nor  received,  and 
been  a  portion  of  the  great  '  passion-play '  of 
the  universe.  They  look  down  upon  their 
youthful  admirers  as  comparatively  raw  and 
inexperienced,  like  iheinselves.  Theirs  is  a 
career  of  hope  and  expectation  all  to  come, 
like  their  own.  They  like  and  esteem  them, 
perhaps  take  their  parts  in  rehearsals  of  the 
old,  old  melodrama.  lUii  in  many  cases  it  is 
not  till  ihey  see  at  their  fet-t  the  war-worn 
soldier,  the  scarred  veteran  who  has  tempted 
fate  so  often  in  the  great  hazards  of  the  cam- 
paign, who  has  shared  \\\v.  cruel  privations, 
the  deadly  hazards  of  real  life  that  the 
imaginative  heart  of  woman  fills  \\\)  all  the 
spaces  in  the  long-outlined  sk(!tch  ol  \\v  hero 
.uid    the    kiu''.    the    lord    and    master   of   her 


V  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  143 

destiny,  to  whom  she  is  henceforth  proud  to 
yield  worship  and  loving  service. 

Why  Mr.  MacCallum  did  not  marry  all  this 
time — heowned  to  thirty-seven,  and  his  enemies 
said  he  was  more  like  forty-five — the  dwellers 
in  the  country  towns  on  the  line  of  march 
exhausted  themselves  in  conjecturing.  The 
boldest  hazarded  the  guess  that  he  might 
have  an  unacknowledged  wife  'at  home.' 
Others  averred  that  he  was  pleasure-loving, 
of  epicurean,  self-indulgent  tastes,  having 
neither  high  ambition  nor  religious  views. 
They  would  be  sorry  to  trust  Angelina  or 
Frederica  to  such  a  guardianship.  Besides, 
he  was  getting  quite  old.  In  a  few  years 
there  would  be  a  great  change  in  him.  He 
had  aged  a  good  deal  since  that  last  trip  of 
his  to  Europe,  when  he  had  the  fever  in 
Rome.  Of  course  he  was  wealthy,  but  money 
was  not  everything,  and  a  man  who  spent  the 
greater  part  of  the  year  at  his  club  was  not 
likely  to  make  a  particularly  good  husband. 

The  object  of  all  this  criticism,  comment, 
and  secret  exasperation  was  a  squarely  built, 
well-dressed  man,  slightly  above  the  middle 
height,    and    with    that    indefinable    ease    of 


144  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiAr. 

manner  and  social  tact  that  travel,  leisure, 
and  the  possession  of  an  assured  position 
generally  produce.  He  was  kindly,  amusing, 
invariably  polite,  and  deferential  to  women  of 
all  ages  ;  and  there  were  few  who  did  not 
acknowledge  the  charm  of  his  manner,  even 
when  they  abuseil  him  in  his  absence,  or 
deceived  him  for  their  own  purposes.  In 
spite  of  all  he  was  popular,  was  the  Honourable 
Hector,  a  man  of  wide  and  varied  experience, 
of  a  bearing  and  general  tournure  which  left 
little  to  be  desired.  In  the  mailer  of  court- 
shij)  he  knew  sufficiently  well  that  it  was  in- 
judicious to  force  the  running  ;  that  a  waiting 
race  was  his  best  chance.  He  took  care 
never  to  prolong  his  visit  ;  .dways  to  encircle 
himself  with  some  surrounding  of  interest 
duriiiL;  his  stay  at  Corindah.  lie  i)leased 
I'oUie  and  her  mothin"  l)\-  beinLi  in  posses- 
sion of  the  newest  inlormation  on  all  sub- 
jects in  which  he  knew  they  were  interested. 
He  was  good-natured  and  ban  caDiaradc 
with  the  young  men,  at  the  same  time  in 
a  (juiet  way  e.xhibiting  a  slii^hl  superiority — 
as  of  one;  whose  sphere  was  larger,  whose 
possessions,  interests,  oiij^oiiuiniies,  and  pi'o- 


V  OR  POLUE'S  PROBATION  145 

spects  generally,  placed  him  upon  a  different 
plane  from  that  with  which  the  ordinary 
individual  must  be  contented.  This,  of 
course,  rendered  more  effective  the  habitual 
deference  which  he  invariably  yielded  to  both 
the  ladies  whom  he  wished  to  propitiate, 
rightly  deeming  that  all  the  avenues  to  Pollie's 
heart  were  guarded  by  the  mental  present- 
ment of  her  mother. 

'  Really,  we  quite  miss  Mr.  MacCallum 
when  he  leaves  Corindah,'  said  Pollie  one 
day,  as  she  watched  the  well-appointed  mail- 
phaeton  and  high-bred  horses  which  that 
gentleman  always  affected,  disappearing  in 
the  distance.  '  He's  most  amusinof  and  well- 
informed ;  his  manners  are  so  finished  — 
really,  there  is  hardly  anything  about  him 
that  you  could  wish  altered.' 

'So  clever  and  practical,  too,  said  Mrs. 
Devereux.  '  He  showed  me  in  a  few  minutes 
how  he  was  going  to  lay  out  the  garden  at 
the  new  house  at  Wanwondah.  Really,  it 
will  be  the  most  lovely  place.  And  the 
irrigation  is  from  a  plan  of  his  own.' 

'  It's  almost  a  pity  to  be  so  extravagant 
there,    isn't    it  ? '    said    her    dauQ-hter.      '  He 


L 


146  THE  CROOKED  STK  k'  ciiap. 

told  mc  he  never  saw  it  excei^l  in  the  winter 
and  sprini;.  He  always  spends  the  summer 
in  some  other  colony.  This  year  he  will  go 
to  the  hot  springs  of  Waiwera,  and  see  all 
that  delicious  North  Island,  and  those  un- 
utter.ihly  lo\-el\-  pink  -  and  -  white  terraces. 
How  I  should  like  to  go  ! ' 

'  Quite  easy,'  said  Harold  Atherstone, 
who  had  been  standing  by  the  mantlepiece 
apparently  in  a  tit  of  abstraction.  'You've 
to  say  "yes"  to  the  Honourable  Hector's 
unspoken  prayer,  and  he'll  take-  you  there, 
or  to  the  moon,  when  Mr.  Cook  discovers  a 
practicable  route.  I  le's  not  more  than  twenty 
years  older  than  you  are — hardly  that. 

*  So  you  think  I  am  likely  to  marry  tor 
the  new  house  at  W'anwondah  Crossing- 
place  ? '  retorted  Tollie.  'Also  tor  the 
powc:r  of  going  awa\  and  leaving  all  you 
stupid  people  to  be  roasted  and  boiled 
during  the  k^ig  dismal  summer.^  Poor 
things!  what  woukl  you  do  without  me  to 
tease  yon  all  }  lint  it's  a  strange  pecu- 
liarity of  society,  1  believe,  that  a  girl  can 
never  make  any  personal  remark  but  invaii- 
al)lv    the     next     idea    suggested     lo    her    i)y 


V  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  147 

her  friends  is,  "Whom  is  she  trying  to 
marry  ? "  That  being  so,  w-hy  shouldn't  I 
marry  Mr.  MacCalkim  ?  Not  that  he  has 
ever  asked  me.' 

'  But  he  will — you  know  he  will — and  if 
you  allow  yourself  to  be  carried  away  by 
dreams  of  luxury  and  unlimited  power  of 
travel,  which  is  more  likely,  you  will  regret 
it  once  only — that  is,  all  your  life  after.' 

'  But  say  you  are  not  serious,  my  darling,' 
said  her  mother,  with  a  half-alarmed  look. 
'  Really,  I  will  take  you  to  Tasmania,  or  even 
New  Zealand,  though  it's  dreadfully  rough — 
anywhere,  rather  than  you  should  be  tempted 
to  act  against  your  better  judgment.  Mr. 
MacCallum  is  extremely  nice  and  suitable — 
but  he  is  far  too  old  for  you.' 

'  I  don't  see  that  at  all,'  replied  the  young 
lady  petulantly.  '  I  like  some  one  I  can 
look  up  to.  All  women  do.  He  knows  the 
world  of  society,  letters,  politics— not  only 
of  these  colonies  either.  Most  other  girls 
would — perhaps  the  phrase  is  vulgar — "jump 
at  him."  Besides,  he  is  most  amusing.  Not 
a  mere  talker,  but  full  of  crisp,  pleasant  ex- 
pressions   and    suggestions.      He    is    a    new 


148  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

maofazine,  with  tlic  leaves  uncLii.  Not  like 
some  people,  gloomy  and  abstracted  half  the 
time.' 

'  Vou  don't  see  /liiu  when  he's  oft  colour 
— excuse  my  slang.'  answered  the  young  man. 
'  He  is  not  always  amusing,  people  say.  lUit 
that's  not  my  affair.  If  age  and  experience 
are  the  valued  qualities.  I'm  sorry  I  was  not 
born  a  (jeneration  earlier.     And  now   I  must 

o 

say  good-bye  ;  I'm  wanted  at  the  back-block 
Inferno,  and  have  no  idea  when  I  shall  see 
you  again.' 

'  If  you  are  nr)t  here  this  day  fortnight,' 
said  the  young  lady,  with  a  solemn  and  tragic 
expression,  '  and  at  tea-time,  see  to  it.' 

'  I)Ut  there's  all  sorts  of  trouble  at  Ban 
IjcUi.  The  dogs  are  showing  ujj.  All  the 
sheep  have  to  corner  in.  There  are  no 
shepherds  to  be  got.  .M\-  working  overseer 
is  laid  up  with  acute  rheumatism.  I  low  can 
I ' 

'  Shepherd  or  no  shepherd,'  persisted 
the  girl, — '  rain  or  shine  rheumatism  or  not 
— this  day  f(jrtnight.  or  you  will  lake  the 
consequence.' 

'  I  suppose    I    must    manage    It,'   (|uoiIi  iIk; 


V  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  149 

unfortunate  young  man.  '  Do  you  remember 
your  Ivanhoe :  "  Gurth,  the  son  of  Beowulf, 
is  the  born  thrall  of  Cedric  of  Rotherwood  "  ? 
Seems  to  me  that  villenage  is  not  extinct, 
even  in  this  colonial  and  democratic  com- 
munity,' 

'And  a  very  good  thing  too,'  retorts  this 
haughty,  undisciplined  damsel.  '  The  feudal 
system  had  an  amazing  deal  of  good  about 
it.  I  don't  see  why  we  shouldn't  revive  it 
out  here.' 

*  Looks  rather  it  at  present  ! '  grumbled 
Harold.  '  Good-bye,  Mrs.  Devereux.  For- 
tunately the  rain's  general,  so  we  can  stand 
a  good  deal  of  oppression  and  intimidation.' 

'  In   the   spring  a  young  man's  fancy   lightly  turns 
to  thoughts  of  love,' 

sang  the  laureate.  And  the  parallel  is 
sound.  Of  course  it  always  rains  in  spring 
in  England. 

But  suppose  it  didn't — as  in  Australia  ? 
He  would  find  that  things  went  differendy. 
The  '  wanton  lapwing '  would  not  get  himself 
another  crest,  and  the  poet  would  have  to 
furnish  himself  with  another  example. 


ISO  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

In  the  absence  of  rain  we  can  assure  our 
readers  that  things  are  much  otherwise,  even 
with  the  dumb  and  feathered  tribes.  The 
wild-fowl  do  come  down  in  a  serious,  philo- 
sophical sort  of  way.  Hut  what  they  do  in 
effect  is  this  : - 

They  say — '  We  have  ciphered  this  thing 
out,  and  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that  it 
is  not  LToinof  to  rain,  that  it  will  be  a  drv 
spring.  That  being  the  case,  we  are  not 
going  to  pair,  or  build,  or  lay  eggs,  or  going- 
through  the  ordinary  foolishness,  in  anticipa- 
tion of  rain  and  certain  other  adjuncts  to 
matrimony,  which  loill  )iol  co))ic. 

And  they  do  not  pair. 

How  are  such  things  managed  }  Who 
teaches  the  birds  of  the  air  ?  Mow  do  they 
know  it  is  going  to  keep  dr\-  ? 

Yet  the  results  are  as  I  state.  There  is 
no  young  family  to  provide  for,  no  presents, 
no  trousseau.x — and  a  vcr\-  good  thing,  too, 
under  the  circumstances. 

.So  with  thc!  social  aiul  amatory  enterprises 
of  the  human  inhabitants  of  the  dry  country  ; 
the  [phenomenon  of  six  inches  of  rain  or  other- 
wise makes  all   the  dillennce.      Mr.  Oldhand 


V  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  151 

had  promised  to  build  his  youngest  son  Dick 
a  new  cottage  at  the  Bree  Bree  station, 
which  he  had  managed  for  him  successfully 
for  several  years,  after  which  Dick's  marriage 
with  Mary  Newcome  was  to  take  place,  they 
having  been  engaged,  as  was  well  known  to 
the  neighbours  here,  for  the  last  three  years. 
But  the  season  '  set  in  dry.'  Dick  had  a  bad 
lambing,  and  lost  sheep  besides.  So  the 
cottage  can't  be  built  this  year,  the  marriage 
is  put  off,  and  Dick's  manly  countenance  wears 
an  air  of  settled  gloom. 

Ergo,  it  follows  that  immediately  upon 
the  supervening  of  a  period  of  unexampled 
prosperity,  consequent  upon  the  abnormal 
rainfall  which  '  ran '  Wawanoo  Creek  in 
half  an  hour,  and  narrowly  escaped  devot- 
ing Bertram  Devereux  to  the  unappeased 
deities  of  the  waste  as  a  befitting  sacrifice, 
proposals  of  marriage  were  thick  in  the  air, 
and  matrimonial  offers  became  nearly  as 
plentiful  as  bids  for  store  sheep. 

When  Hector  MacCallum  therefore,  as 
became  him,  gallantly  took  the  lead  as  repre- 
sentative of  the  marrying  pastoral  section,  no 
one  wondered.      Speculation  and  conjecture 


152  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

doubtless,  were  evoked  as  to  where  the 
many-stationed  Sultan  might  deign  to  cast 
his  coveted  kerchief.  In  despite  of  inter- 
provincial  jealousies,  however,  no  one  was 
much  astonished  when  reliable  information 
was  disseminated  to  the  etfect  that  he  had 
been  on  a  visit  of  nearly  a  week  to 
Corindah,  had  been  seen  driving  Mrs.  and 
IVIiss  Devereux  to  points  of  interest  in  the 
neighbourhood  in  his  mail-phaeton,  that  his 
groom's  livery  was  more  resplendent  than 
ever,  and  that  the  famous  chestnuts  had  been 
replaced  by  a  team  of  brown  horsi-s,  admir- 
ably matched,  thorough-bred,  and  said  to  be 
the  most  valuable  turn-out  in  work  on  this 
side  of  the  line.  .Acidulated  [)ersons,  as 
usual,  made  e.xclamation  to  the  effect  that 
'they  never  could  see  what  there  was  in  that 
girl  ;  some  people  had  wonderful  luck  ;  bold- 
ness and  assurance  seemed  to  take  better 
than  any  other  cjualities  with  ilu;  men 
nowadays,'  and  s(j  on.  I'ut  when  gradually 
it  oozed  out  that  then:  was  no  triumphant 
proclamation  of  cngagemcMit  after  all.  th.it 
Mr.  MacCalluin  was  going  to  r-ngl.uul.  couKl 
not  \)v.  back  for  two  or  three  ye.irs,  etc.      all 


V  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  153 

of  which  certainly  pointed  to  the  fact  of  his 
proposals  having  been  declined,  impossible  as 
such  a  fact  would  appear — the  clamour  of  the 
hard-to-please  contingent  rose  loud  and  high. 
'  What  did  the  girl  want  ?  Was  she  waiting 
for  a  prince  of  the  blood  ?  After  having 
befooled  all  the  men  within  her  reach,  from 
Jack  Charteris  to  the  parson,  and  ending  up 
with  a  man  old  enough  to  be  her  father,  and 
who  certainly  should  have  known  better,  was 
it  not  heartless  and  indecent  to  treat  him  as 
she  had  done  ?  Would  not  the  whole  district 
cry  shame  upon  her,  and  she  be  left  lamenting 
in  a  few  years,  deserted  by  every  one  that 
had  any  sense  ?  A  vinegary  old  maid  in  the 
future — it  would  be  all  her  own  fault,  and 
that  of  her  mother's  ridiculous  vanity  and 
indulgence.' 

All  unknowing  or  careless  of  these  arrows 
of  criticism,  the  free  and  fearless  maiden 
pursued  her  career.  Mr.  MacCallum  had, 
at  a  well-chosen  moment,  made  his  effort 
and  pressed  with  practised  persistence  for  a 
favourable  answer.  But  in  vain.  Under 
other  conditions,  men  of  his  age  and 
attributes    have    been    frequently   successful, 


154  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

to  the  wnuh  ;iik1  astonishment  of  younger 
rivals.  I)Ut  circumstances  have  been  in 
their  favour.  Poverty,  ignorance  of  the 
world,  ambition  on  the  part  of  the  girl's 
friends,  gratitude,  have  all  or  each  conspired 
in  such  case  to  turn  the  scale  in  favour  of  the 
wealthy  and  adroit,  if  maiurr,  wooer.  And 
so  the  contract,  often  a  fiirly  ha[)i)y  one,  is 
concluded. 

But  in  this  case  Love,  the  lord  of  all,  had 
fair  play  for  once.  Pollie  had  distinctly 
made  up  her  mind,  since  she  was  conscious 
of  possessing  such  a  faculty,  that  she  would 
never  marr\'  an\'  one  unless  slu:  was  in  love 
with  him  ardcntK',  passionately,  romantically, 
without  any  manner  of  doubt.  People  might 
conie  and  try  to  please.  She  could  not  help 
that.  It  was  hardly  in  her  nature  to  be  cold 
or  rude  to  an)bo(l\.  r>ut  as  to  marrying 
any  one  she  onl}'  liked,  she  would  tlie  hrst. 

.She  liked,  sh(!  respected,  she  in  every  way 
approved  of  Mr.  MacCallum  ;  Ijut  no!  She 
was  much  honoured,  llatterc;d,  and  pleased, 
and  really  shrank  from  the  idea  ol  giving  him 
so  much  pain.  Mr.  MacCallum  exaggerated 
his   probable   ag(jnies   in    such    a   wa\    that    a 


V  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  155 

weaker  woman  might  probably  have  given  in 
— from  sheer  pity.  But  as  to  marrying  him,  it 
was  out  of  the  question.  Her  answer  was 
*  No,'  and  nothing  could  ever  alter  it. 

So  the  Honourable  Hector  had  to  depart 
in  a  more  disappointed  and  disgusted  frame 
of  mind  than  had  happened  to  His  Royal 
Highness  for  many  a  day.  Drought,  debts, 
dingoes,  travelling  sheep,  were  all  as  nothing 
to  this  crowning  disaster.  Everything  else 
being  so  flourishing,  it  was  a  thunderbolt  out 
of  a  blue  sky,  crushing  his  equanimity  and 
self-satisfaction  to  the  dust. 

Not  his  happiness,  however.  A  middle- 
aged  bachelor  with  a  good  digestion  and 
enviable  bank  balance  is  not — whatever  the 
sensational  novelist  may  assert  —  usually 
slaughtered  by  one  such  miscalculation.  He 
does  not  like  it,  of  course.  He  fumes  and 
frets  for  a  week  or  two,  and  probably  says, 
'  Confound  the  girl!  1  thought  she  really  liked 
me.'  Then  he  falls  back  upon  the  time- 
honoured  calculation — a  most  arithmetically 
correct  one — of  those  'other  fish  in  the  sea.' 
Claret  has  a  soothing  effect.  The  Club 
produces    alleviating    symptoms.       And    the 


ij6  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap,  v 

Laird  of  Cockpen  cither  marries  the  next 
young  lady  on  his  Hst,  or.  departing  to  lar 
lands,  discovers  that  the  supply  of  Calypsos 
and  Ariadnes  is  practically  unlimited. 

MacCallum,  like  a  shrewd  personage,  as 
he  was,  held  his  tongue  and  took  the  next 
mail  for  luirope,  reappearing  NNilliin  two 
years  with  an  exceedingly  handsome  and 
lady-like  wife,  who  did  full  justice  to  his 
many  good  qualities,  was  very  popular,  and 
made  Wanwondah  quite  the  show  country- 
house  of  the  neighbourhood. 


CHAPTER   VI 

After  this  stupendous  incident  had  rufifled 
the  waters  of  provincial  repose,  a  long 
untroubled  calm  succeeded.  Little  was  heard 
in  the  article  of  news  except  the  weekly 
chronicle  of  stock  movements  :  who  had  sold, 
who  had  bought,  who,  having  stocked  up — 
that  is,  filled  his  run  with  all  the  sheep  it 
would  carry,  and  more — had  sold  to  a  new 
arrival,  and  gone  to  England  '  for  good,'  or  at 
least  till  the  long-dated  station  bills  became 
due.  Amonof  this  last-named  division  was 
Mr,  Jack  Charteris,  who,  having  sold  one  of 
his  far-out  runs  to  a  Queenslander,  considered 
this  to  be  a  favourable  opportunity  to  take  '  a 
run  home,'  as  he  expressed  it,  for  a  year,  for 
various  specified  reasons  which  he  displayed 
before  his  friends,  such  as  seeing  the  world 
and  renewing  his  constitution,  lately  injured 


1 58  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

by  hard  work  and  anxiety.  So  he  ostenta- 
tiously took  his  passage  by  a  well-known  mail- 
steamer,  and  made  all  ready  to  start  in  a  couple 
of  months.  He  had,  however,  two  plans  i)i 
petto,  of  which  ht;  did  not  advise  society 
generally. 

One  was.  by  personal  ai)i)lication  to 
English  capitalists — being  provided  with  all 
proper  credentials  from  his  bankers  and 
others,  with  a  carefully  drawn  out  schedule  of 
his  properties  (purchased  lands,  leasehold, 
sheep,  cattle,  horses,  outside  country),  with 
carefully  kept  accounts  showing  the  profits 
upon  stations  and  stock  for  the  last  five  or  ten 
years,  the  increasing  value  of  the  wool  clip, 
and  the  annual  expenditure  upon  j)ermanent 
inipr(n'c:m(.-nts  ;  the  whole  willi  personal 
valuation  (approxlin.ilc).  and  rctcrciices  to 
leading  colonists  of  r.uik  and  position — to 
discover  whether  he.  John  Chartcris,  with  an 
imjjroving  pro[)erty,  but  constantly  in  want  of 
cash  advances,  could  not  secun!  a  lo.ui  lor  a 
term  of  years  at  Kn_L;lish  rates  of  iiiKM-est,  say 
five  or  six  per  cent,  instead  of  at  colonial 
rates,  eight,  nine-,  and  ten.  This  would  in;ike 
a  consitleral)le  diff<  rence  to  Mr.    I-ick's  .uinu.il 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  159 

disbursements,  relieve  him  from  anxiety  when 
the  money-market  hardened,  and  would, 
moreover,  euchre  his  friends  the  bankers  in 
Sydney,  with  whom  he  was  wont  to  carry 
on  a  half-playful,  half-serious  war  of  words 
whenever  they  met. 

His  other  coup  was  to  make  a  farewell 
visit  to  Corindah,  and  at  the  last  moment  '  try 
his  luck,'  as  he  phrased  it,  with  the  daughter 
of  the  house.  He  was  not  over  sanguine, 
but  in  reviewing  the  situation,  he  decided 
that  with  women,  as  with  other  '  enterprises 
of  great  pith  and  moment,'  you  never  know 
what  you  can  do  till  you  try.  He  ran  over 
all  the  reasons  for  and  against  on  his  fingers 
—as  he  was  wont  to  do  in  a  bargain  for  stock 
— finally  deciding  that  he  would  '  submit  an 
offer.' 

Many  a  time  and  often  had  he  acted 
similarly  after  the  same  calculation — offered 
a  price  far  below  the  owner's  presumable 
valuation  and  the  market  rate  of  the  article. 
As  often,  to  his  great  surprise,  it  had  been 
accepted.      He  would  do  so  now. 

'  Let  me  see,'  he  said  to  himself  '  Old 
MacCallum  got  the  sack,  they  say.      1   rather 


i6o  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

wonder  at  that  —  that  is,  I  should  have 
wondered  il  it  had  been  any  other  girl.  Not 
another  girl  in  the  district  but  would  have 
accepted  him  on  his  knees.  Such  a  house — 
such  horses  !  Good-looking,  pleasant  fellow, 
full-mouthed  of  course,  but  sountl  on  his  pins, 
hardly  a  grey  hair — regular  short  price  in  the 
bettinc;.  What  a  sell  for  him  !  Well,  now 
about  Jack  Charteris,  How  stands  he  for 
odds  ?  Nine-and-twenty  next  birthday  ;  fairly 
good-looking,  so  the  girls  say ;  plenty  of  pluck, 
good  nature,  and  impudence  ;  ride,  run,  shoot, 
or  fight  any  man  of  his  weight  in  the  country. 
Clever?  Well,  I  wish  I  was  a  little  better 
up  in  those  confounded  books.  If  I  were,  I 
really  believe  1  might  go  in  and  win.  The 
only  man  I'm  afraid  of  is  that  confounded 
cousin  fellow.  1  Ic  is  infernally  sly  and  (juiet, 
and,  I  expect,  is  coming  up  in  the  inside 
running.      I'd  like  to  punch  his  head.' 

Here  Mr.  Charteris  stood  up,  squared  his 
shoulders,  and  delivered  an  imaginary  right 
and  left  into  an  cminy  with  extraordinary 
gusto.  TIkmi  (exclaiming,  '  I  hi-e  goes  an\  - 
how  !  I'll  go  in  for  it  on  in\-  w.i\  to  .S\(lne\-. 
I'll  provide  a  retreat  in  case  of   lotal  rout   and 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  i6i 

defeat.      It  will  be  half  forgotten  by  the  time 
I  return.' 

To  resolve  and  to  execute  were  with  Mr. 
Charteris  almost  simultaneous  acts.  Working 
night  and  day  until  his  preparations  were 
complete,  he  sent  on  a  note  to  say  when  he 
might  be  expected,  and  on  the  appointed 
evening  drove  up,  serious  and  determined,  to 
Corindah  gate.  He  was  received  with  so 
much  cordiality  that  he  half  thought  his 
mission  was  accomplished,  and  that  the 
princess  would  accompany  him  to  Europe 
without  notice,  which  would  have  been  one 
of  the  rapid  and  triumphant  coups  in  which 
his  speculative  soul  delighted.  The  real 
reason  was,  that  both  ladies  were  moved  in 
their  feminine  hearts  by  the  idea  of  so  old 
an  acquaintance  going  a  journey  to  a  far 
land,  and  were  sensitively  anxious  to  show 
him  all  the  honour  and  attention  they  could 
under  such  exceptional  circumstances. 

So  the  best  of  us  are  deceived  occasion- 
ally. Who  has  not  seen  the  unwonted  sparkle 
in  a  woman's  eyes  and  as  often  as  not — if 
the  truth  be  told — put  a  totally  wrong  inter- 
pretation upon  the  signal  .-* 

M 


i62  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

Thus  Mr.  Charteris  fared,  much  encour- 
aged, and  greatly  heightened  in  determina- 
tion. He  was  at  his  best  and  brightest  all 
the  evening,  and  when  he  said — pressing 
Pollie's  hand  as  they  parted — that  he  wanted 
to  say  a  last  word  to  her  about  his  voyage 
if  she  would  be  in  the  orangery  before 
breakfast,  that  young  woman  assented  in  the 
most  unsuspicious  manner,  believing  it  to  be 
something  about  Maltese  lace,  as  to  which 
she  had  given  him  a  most  unmerciful  com- 
mission. So,  shaking  his  haiul  w  illi  rc'nt!wed 
fervour,  she  went  oft  to  bed,  leaving  Mr. 
Charteris  in  the  seventh  heaven,  and  almost 
unable  to  sleep  for  the  tumultuous  nature  of 
his  emotions. 

The  sun  was  close!)'  ins])ect('d  i)y  John 
Charteris  next  morning,  from  its  earliest 
appearance;  until  after  about  an  hour's 
radiance  had  been  shed  upon  the  vast  ocean 
of  verdure,  from  which  its  hc;at  extracted  a 
silvery  mist.  How  different  from  the  outlook 
one  little  year  ago!  His  eye  roamed  over 
the  vast  expanse  meditatively,  as  if  c  alcnlat- 
ing  the  inimber  of  sheep  lo  the;  acre  such  a 
grass  croj)   would   sustain,   it   one   conlil   only 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  163 

have  it  for  five  years  all  the  season  through. 
Suddenly  he  became  aware  of  a  light  form 
flitting  through  the  dark-green  foliage  and 
gold-globed  greenery  of  the  orangery. 

In  a  moment  he  was  by  her  side.  His 
face  lit  up  with  innocent  pleasure  as  she 
greeted  him  with  childish  joy.  In  her  heart 
she  thought  she  had  never  known  him  so 
pleasant  in  his  manner,  so  nice  and  friendly, 
and  yet  reticent,  before.  If  so  improved 
now,  what  would  he  be  when  he  returned 
from  Europe }  She  had  no  more  idea  of 
any  arriere  pens(ie  in  meeting  him  by 
appointment  in  the  garden  than  if  he  had 
been  the  Bishop  of  Riverina. 

When  Mr.  Charteris,  after  a  few  uncon- 
nected remarks  about  the  beauty  of  the 
weather,  the  prospects  of  the  season,  his 
sorrow  for  leaving  all  his  old  friends,  thought 
it  time  to  come  to  the  point,  especially  as 
Pollie  in  the  goodness  of  her  heart  replied 
to  the  last  statement  with  '  Not  more  sorry 
than  they  are  to  lose  you,  Mr.  Charteris,' 
he  certainly  produced  an  effect. 

'  Oh,  Miss  Devereux,  oh,  my  dearest 
Pollie,   if  you  will    let  me  call   you  so,   why 


i64  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chai'. 

should  we  part  at  all  .■'  Surely  you  must  see 
the  affection  I've  cherished,  the  feelings  I've 
had  for  you  ever  since  we  first  met.  Years 
and  years  I've  stood  by  and  said  nothing, 
because — because  I  was  doubtful  of  your 
affection,  but  now,  now  ! ' 

Here  he  took  her  hand  and  began  gently 
to  draw  her  towards  him,  putting  an  imploring 
expression  into  his  eyes,  which  was  so  utterly 
foreign  to  their  usual  merry  and  audacious 
expression,  that  Pollie,  after  one  wild,  fixed 
gaze  of  horrified  anxiety,  as  if  to  see  whether 
he  had  not  become  suddenly  insane,  burst 
into  a  fit  of  uncontrollable  laughter. 

'  Miss  Devercux,  surely,'  began  he-,  with 
a  hurt  and  surprised  look,  '  this  is  not  ex- 
actly f;ur  or  kind  under  the  circumstances, 
W'lial  I  havc!  said  may  or  ma\-  not  be  ridicu- 
lous, but  it  is  generally  looked  u|)()n  as  a 
compliment  paiil  l(j  a  young  lady  and  not 
as  a  matter,  pardon  ine,  for  ridicule  and 
contempt.' 

The  girl's  fac('  changed  suddenl).  She 
made  a  strong  effort  ami  prevented  herself 
from  la])sijig  into  what  mi-lu  have  been  an 
hysteric. d  outbreak  ol  iiiirlh. 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  165 

'  Mr.  Charteris,'  she  said  gravely,  '  I  am 
the  last  person,  as  you  ought  to  know,  likely 
to  hurt  your  feelings  consciously ;  but  I 
might  ask  you  whether  you  think  it  right  or 
fair  to  entice  me  here,  with  my  mind  running 
on  Maltese  lace  and  Cingalese  ornaments, 
which  were  the  last  things  we  spoke  about 
last  night,  and  suddenly  fire  off  a  proposal 
in  form  at  me.  I  declare  I  was  never  more 
astonished  in  my  life.  Whatever  could  you 
be  thinking  of? ' 

'  What  every  one  who  sees  you  is  thinking 
of,'  answered  Jack,  humbly  and  regretfully 
— '  love  and  admiration  for  your  sweet  self 
Oh!  Miss  Devereux,  I  worship  the  very 
ground  you  stand  upon.' 

'  I  will  never  be  decently  civil  to  any  one 
again,'  declared  Pollie.  '  I  suppose  you  saw- 
mother  and  I  Vv^ere  glad  to  see  you,  and  so 
thought^ — Heaven  forgive  you  ! — that  I  had 
fallen  in  love  with  you.  Don't  you  know 
that  girls  never  show  their  feelings  that  way.'* 
It  v/ill  be  a  lesson  to  you  another  time. 
Don't  say  another  word.  We  shall  always 
be  good  friends,  I  hope.  When  you  come 
out  with  a  wife — you'll  find  lots  of  nicer  girls 


1 66  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

than  mc  in  I'lnglanc].  so  everybody  says — 
\vc  shall  lauyh  over  this.  Mother  and  I  will 
hold  our  toncfues  ;  nobody  need  know.  I 
shall  not  show  at  breakfast.  You  had  better 
tell  her,  and  she  will  comfort  you.  Good- 
bye.' 

She  looked  him  frankly  in  the  face  and 
held  out  her  hand,  which  poor  jack  took 
ruefully,  and  raisin^^  it  to  his  lips,  turned 
awav.  When  he  looked  round,  she  had 
disappeared.  The  glory  of  the  morning 
had  passed  away  with  her.  He  made  a 
melancholy  attempt  to  whistle,  and  slowly 
betook  himself  to  the  stables,  where  he 
arrani;ed  that  his  luggage  should  be  stowed 
in  his  [)haeton  and  all  things  made  ready  for 
a  start  at  a  moment's  notice  after  breakfast. 

This  done,  he  sauntered  into  the  house, 
and,  inl(,'rc('i)ting  Mrs.  1  )cvereu.\  before  she 
reached  the  breakfast-room,  told  her  of  the 
melancholy  occurrtmce  with  a  countenance 
to  match,  and  begged  her  pardon  and  her 
daughter's  for  making  so  great  a  mistake. 

Mrs.  Devereu.x  was  a  leiuK-r- hearted 
woman,  and,  as  are  most  of  her  age, 
inclined     to    condone    all     ollences    oi    this 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  167 

nature,  though,  hke  her  daughter,  as  Mr. 
Charteris  resentfully  felt,  she  expressed  ex- 
treme astonishment  at  the  idea  of  his  havinsf 
come  with  malice  prepense  to  make  so  serious 
a  proposition.  She  was  sure  that  Pollie  had 
not  given  him  reason  to  think  that  she  had 
any  other  feeling  for  him  but  that  of  sincere, 
unalloyed  friendship,  which  they  had  always 
felt,  and,  she  trusted,  always  would. 

But  Mr.  Charteris'  humility  broke  down 
and  changed  at  this  point  into  something 
very  like  a  strong  sense  of  unfair  treatment. 
'  Confound  it ! '  he  broke  out.  '  That  is,  I 
beg  a  thousand  pardons  ;  but  it  appears  to 
me  the  first  time  in  my  life  that  you  are 
not  quite  just,  Mrs.  Devereux.  How  in  the 
world  is  a  man  to  find  out  if  a  girl  likes  him, 
if  he  doesn't  ask  her?  Is  he  to  wait  years 
and  years  until  they  both  grow  old,  or  until 
he  worries  her  into  making  some  sign  that 
she  cares  for  him  more  than  other  fellows? 
I  call  that  rather  a  mean  way.  I  must  say 
I  thought  Miss  Devereux  liked  me,  and 
that's  enough  in  my  mind  for  a  man  to 
begin  on.  I've  had  my  shot,  and  missed. 
But   for   the   life   of   me,    I    can't    see  where 


i6S  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiAr. 

I've  acted  eitlier  unlike  a  man  nr  a  "entle- 
man.' 

As  Jack  stood  straight  ujd  and  delivered 
himself  of  this  explanation  of  his  views  and 
principles,  with  a  heightened  colour  and  a 
kindling  eye,  Mrs,  Devereux  could  not  helj) 
thinking  that  he  would  have  advanced  his 
views  very  much  with  her  daughter  if  he 
had  spoken  to  her  in  the  same  decided  tone 
and  manner.  'lie  really  is  a  fine  young 
man,'  she  thought  to  herself,  'and  very 
good-looking  too.  Hut  there's  no  persuad- 
ing a  wilful  girl.  1  hope  she  may  never 
do  worse,' 

Then  she  took  Jack's  hand  herself  in 
hers,  and  said,  ']\Ty  dc.-ar  John,  neither  1 
nor  Polly  would  hurt  your  feelings  for  the 
world.  li  did  takt;  us  by  surprise;  but 
perhaps  I  ought  to  have  noticed  that  your 
admiration  for  her  was  genuine.  1  (juite 
agree  with  you  that  it  is  mort;  manly  and 
straightforward  for  a  man  to  declare  him- 
self posilivc:l)'.  1  am  sure  \\v.  shall  always 
look  upon  you  as  one  ol  our  hcst  and  dearest 
friends.' 

'  I    hope   Miss   I'ollie  may  do  better,'  said 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  169 

Jack  gloomily,  as  he  pressed  the  hand  of  the 
kind  matron.  '  She  may  or  she  may  not. 
A  girl  doesn't  always  judge  men  rightly 
until  it  is  too  late — too  late — but  whether 
or  no,  God  bless  her  and  you  in  that  and 
everything  else !  Don't  forget  poor  Jack 
Charteris.' 

And  he  was  gone. 

Mr.  Charteris,  with  habitual  forethought, 
had  left  nothing  till  the  last  moment.  As  he 
came  into  the  yard,  he  had  but  to  take  the 
reins  and  gain  the  box-seat.  His  horses 
plunged  at  their  collars,  and  swept  out  of 
the  yard  across  the  plain  at  a  rate  which 
showed  that  they  were  instinctively  aware 
that  a  rapid  start  was  intended.  Half-way 
across  the  first  plain  he  encountered  Harold 
Atherstone  on  horseback,  looking  like  a  man 
who  had  already  had  a  long  ride. 

'  Hallo  !  Jack,  whither  away  ?  You  look 
as  it  you  were  driving  against  time.  What's 
up  ? ' 

'  Well,  I'm  off  by  next  week's  mail-steamer, 
as  I  told  you  before.  I've  been  at  Corindah 
since  yesterday,  where  I've  been  fool  enough 
to    run  my  head  against  a  post.      I    needn't 


I70  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

explain.'  Marold  nodded  sympathetically. 
'  We're  in  the  same  boat,  I  expect.  I 
wouldn't  care  if  you  were  the  fortunate 
man,  old  fellow  ;  though  every  one  has  a 
right  to  try  his  own  luck.  Rut  I  expect 
we  shall  both  be  euchred  by  that  infernal, 
smooth-faced,  mild-voiced,  new-chum  cousin. 
I  can't  see  what  there  is  to  attract  the 
women  about  him  ;  but  they  are  all  in  the 
same  line.  I  heard  Bella  Pemberton  prais- 
ing him  up  hill  and  down  dale.  I  suppose 
there  is  a  fate  in  these  things.  \\  here  is 
he  now  .'^ ' 

'  I  am  not  prepared  to  agree  with  all  you 
say,'  answered  Harold  calmly.  'The  end 
will  show.  I  don't  trust  him  too  much 
myself,  though  I  should  be  jnizzled  upon 
what  to  ground  my  "  Doctor  Fell  "  feeling, 
lie  is  away  on  some  back  country  that  Mrs. 
Devereux  has  rented,  and  won't  be  back  for 
a  month.' 

'  I  hope  his  horse  will  j)ut  its  foot  in  a 
crab-hole  and  break  its  n<ck,'  said  Jack 
viciously.  '  I  wouldn't  mintl  the  girl  being 
carried  awa\-  from  us  by  a  ))ia)i.  .She  has  a 
rigiu  to  follow  her  fancy.      liul   a   pale-faced, 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  171 

half-baked,  sea-sick  looking  beggar  like  that 
— it's  more  than  a  fellow  can  bear.' 

'  Come,  Jack,  you're  unjust,  and  not  over 
respectful  to  Miss  Devereux  herself.  But 
I  make  allowances.  Good-bye,  old  man.  Bon 
voyage  I  Bring  out  a  rosy-cheeked  English 
girl.  Hearts  are  reparable  commodities,  you 
know.     Yours  has  been  broken  before.' 

'  Never  like  this,  Harold  ;  give  you  my 
word.  I  could  sell  the  whole  place,  and  cut 
the  colony  for  ever,  I  feel  so  miserable  and 
downhearted.  But  I'm  not  one  of  the  lie- 
down-and-die  sort,  so  I  suppose  I  shall  risk 
another  entry.  Good-bye,  old  man.  God 
bless  you ! ' 

A  silent  hand-grasp,  and  the  friends  parted. 
Mr.  Charteris'  equipage  gradually  faded  away 
in  the  mirage  of  the  far  distance,  while  Harold 
rode  quietly  onward  towards  his  own  station 
— much  musing  and  with  a  heart  less  calm 
than  his  words  had  indicated. 

When  he  arrived  at  the  spot  where  the 
tracks  diverged,  he  was  conscious  of  a  strong 
instinctive  inclination — first  of  his  steed,  and 
then  of  himself — to  take  the  track  which 
led  to  Corindah.     After  combating  this  not 


172  THE  CROOKED  STICK  cwkw 

wholly  logical  tendency,  and  tcllinn  himself 
that  it  was  his  first  duty  to  go  and  see  that 
all  things  were  well  in  order  at  home  before 
makinor  his  usual  call  at  Corindah,  he  descried 
another  horseman  coming  rather  fast  across 
the  plain,  and  evidently  making  for  the 
Corindah  track. 

Pulling  up  so  as  to  give  the  stranger  an 
opportunity  for  ranging  alongside,  he  presently 
said  to  himself  involuntarily,  '  Why,  it's  the 
parson  ;  and  furthermore,  I  shall  have  to  go 
to  Corindah  now,  as  the  old  lady  says  she 
finds  it  hard  work  entertaining  Courtenay  all 
l»y  himself,  lie's  not  a  had  h:ind  at  talking, 
but  he's  so  terrifically  serious  and  matter-of- 
fact  that  he's  rather  much  for  a  couple  of 
women.  When  Bertram's  there  it's  better, 
for  I  notice  he  generally  c()nirivc:s  to  gel  up 
an  argument  with  him,  and  bowl  him  over  on 
some  i)oint  of  church  history.  That  fellow 
Bertram  knows  everything,  to  do  him  justice.' 

As  these  thoughts  passed  through  his  mind 
the  individual  referred  to  canten^d  up  on  an 
active-looking  hackney,  rather  high  in  bone, 
and  greeted  him  with  pleased  recognition. 

'  1    was  debating    in    my   own    mind,    Air. 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  173 

Atherstone,'  he  said,  'whether  I  should  hold 
divine  service  at  your  station  to-day  or  at 
that  of  Mrs.  Devereux.' 

'  You  are  equally  welcome  at  both  houses, 
as  you  know,'  said  the  layman  ;  'but  I  think 
it  may  be  perhaps  a  more  convenient  arrange- 
ment in  all  respects  to  manage  it  in  this  way. 
If  you  will  ride  home  with  me  now  to 
Maroobil,  I  will  see  that  all  the  men  are 
mustered  and  the  wool-shed  got  ready  to- 
night. I  can  send  a  messenger  to  Corindah 
with  a  note  telling  Mrs.  Devereux  that  you 
and  I  will  be  there  to-morrow  night,  which 
will  be  Saturday.  She  will  then  have  every- 
thing prepared  for  a  regular  morning  service 
on  Sunday.' 

The  clergyman  bowed  assentingly.  '  I 
think  that  will  suit  better  than  the  plan  I  had 
proposed  to  myself  of  going  there  to-night. 
There  are  a  good  many  people  within  a  few 
hours'  ride  of  Corindah,  and  Mrs.  Devereux 
always  kindly  sends  word  to  them  of  my 
arrival.  The  Sabbath  will  be  the  more  ap- 
propriate day  for  divine  service  at  Corindah, 
where  there  will  probably  be  a  larger 
gathering.' 


174  THE  CROOKED  STICK  c\\\\\ 

'  Then  we  may  as  well  ride,'  said  the  other, 
looking  at  his  watch,  '  and  we  shall  be  in  time 
•for  a  late  lunch  at  jNIaroobil.' 

The  Rev,  Cyril  Courtenay  was  a  spare, 
rather  angular  young  man,  about  seven-and- 
twenty,  who  had  a  parish  about  as  large  as 
Scotland  to  supply,  as  he  best  might,  with 
religious  nourishment  and  spiritual  consola- 
tion. He  had  taken  a  colonial  University 
de^rree,  and  was  therefore  well  instructed  in 
a  general  way,  in  addition  to  which  he  was  a 
gentleman  by  birth  and  early  training  He 
was  gifted  with  a  commendable  amount  of 
zeal  for  the  cause  of  true  religion  generally,  if 
more  particularly  for  the  Church  of  England, 
of  which  he  was  an  ordained  clergyman. 

His  duties  were  different  from  what  they 
would  have  b(:(,'n  in  an  I'^nglish  parish.  The 
distances  were  indciul  magnificent.  His 
stipend  was  i)aid  cliielly  by  the  voluntary 
contributions  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  district 
of  West  Logan,  and  partly  from  a  fund  of 
which  the  bishoj)  of  his  diocese  had  the 
managemenl,  and  from  which  he  was  able  to 
supplemciU  the  incomes  ol  the  poori:r  clergy, 
'ihis   amounted    lo   about    two    hiiiuh'cd    ami 


VI  OR  POLL/E'S  PROBATION  175 

fifty  pounds  per  annum.  The  contributories 
were  almost  entirely  squatters.  The  other 
laymen  of  the  denomination — labourers,  shep- 
herds, station  hands,  boundary  riders,  etc. — 
though  they  attended  his  services  cheerfully, 
did  not  consider  themselves  bound  to  pay  any- 
thing ;  holding,  apparently,  that  the  Rev.  Cyril 
was  included  in  the  category  of  '  swells  '—a 
class  radically  differing  from  themselves, 
whose  subsistence  was  safe  and  assured,  being 
provided  for  in  some  mysterious  manner 
between  the  squatters  and  the  Government, 
by  whom  all  the  good  things  of  this  life,  in 
their  opinion,  including  '  place  and  pay,'  were 
distributed  at  will. 

The  horse  of  the  Rev.  Cyril  had  started 
off  when  Mr.  Atherstone  gave  the  signal  to 
his  own  hackney,  and  powdered  along  the 
level  road  as  if  a  hand-gallop  was  the  only 
pace  with  which  he  was  acquainted.  It  is 
a  curious  fact  that  the  clergymen  of  all 
Protestant  denominations  ride  hard,  and  are 
not  famous  for  keeping  their  horses  in  good 
condition.  Exceptis  excipiendis,  of  course. 
There  are  not  many  of  them,  either,  to  whom 
the  laity  are  anxious  to  lend  superior  hack- 


176  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

neys.  They  are  accused,  and  not  without 
reason,  of  being  hard  on  their  borrowed 
mounts,  and  of  not  being  careful  of  their 
sustenance.  The  priest  of  the  Roni-ish  com- 
munion, on  the  other  hand,  invariably  has  a 
good  horse,  in  good  condition.  He  treats 
him  well  and  tenderly  wiiluil.  Why  this 
difference  ^  Why  the  balance  of  care  and 
merciful  dealing  on  the  side  of  our  Roman 
Catholic  brethren  }  For  one  thing,  priests  are 
chiefly  Irishmen,  who  are  horsemen  and  horse- 
lovers  to  a  man.  TIkmi  the  celibate  Levite, 
having  no  human  outU^t  for  his  affections,  pets 
his  steed,  as  the  old  maid  her  cat.  With  the 
married  clergyman  the  oats  of  the  rough- 
coated,  though  serviceable,  steed  come  often 
in  competition  with  the  butcher's  and  baker's 
bills  or  the  children's  schooling.  The  married 
parson's  horse,  like  himself,  nuisi  work  hard 
on  the  smallest  modicum  of  sustenance,  lodg- 
ing, and  support  that  will  keep  body  and 
soul  tog(th(-r.  And  very  good  work  the  pair 
often  do. 

The  Rev,  Cyril,  however,  being  a  bachelor, 
and  living  a  good  deal  at  frei'  (juarlers,  was 
not  an    impecunious    individual.      lie    should 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  177 

therefore  have  had  his  hackney  in  better 
order.  But  it  was  more  a  matter  of  careless- 
ness with  him  than  lack  of  purpose.  He 
had  not  been  a  horseman  in  his  youth. 
Australian  born  as  he  was,  he  had  studied 
hard  and  permitted  himself  few  recreations 
of  a  physical  kind  ;  so  that  when,  after  serving 
as  a  catechisj:,  he  was  appointed  to  the  district 
of  West  Logan,  where  he  had  two  or  three 
hundred  miles  a  week  to  ride  or  drive  in  a 
general  way,  he  found  himself  awkwardly 
deficient  in  this  particular  accomplish- 
ment. 

To  take  a  man-servant  with  him  always 
would  have  doubled  his  expenses,  without 
being  of  any  corresponding  benefit.  After 
trying  it  for  a  few  months  he  gave  it  up.  He 
then  took  to  riding  and  driving  himself — at 
first  with  partial  success,  inasmuch  as  he  had 
several  falls,  and  the  periodical  overthrow  of 
the  parson's  buggy  became  part  of  the  monthly 
news  of  the  district.  Gradually,  however, 
he  attained  to  that  measure  of  proficiency 
which  enables  a  man  to  ride  a  quiet  horse 
along  a  road  or  through  open  country,  besides 
being  able  to  drive  a  buggy  without  colliding 


178  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

with  obstacles.  He  certainly  drove  with 
painfully  loose  reins,  and  rode  his  horse  much 
after  the  sailor's  fashion,  as  if  they  are  war- 
ranted to  go  fifty  miles  without  stopping. 
However,  he  got  on  pretty  well  on  the  whole, 
and  Australian  horses,  like  Cossack  ponies, 
being  accustomed  to  stand  a  good  deal  of 
violent  exercise  with  the  aid  only  of  occasional 
feeding  and  no  grooming  at  all,  Mr.  Courtenay 
and  his  steed  got  through  their  work  and 
adventures  reasonably  well. 

Three  o'clock  saw  the  two  young  men  at 
the  IMaroobil  home  station,  a  large,  old- 
fashioned,  comfortable  congeries  of  buildings, 
without  attempt  at  architectural  embellish- 
ment. The  barns,  sheds,  and  stables  were 
massive  and  commodious,  showing  signs  of 
having  bc-cn  buili  in  that  earlier  period  of 
colonial  history  when  less  attention  was  paid 
to  rapidity  of  construction.  The  garden  was 
full  of  fruit-trees  of  great  age  and  si/e.  which 
even  in  the  late  droughts  seemed  to  have 
been  su|)j)lied  with  adequate  moisture.  Com- 
fnrl  and  inassivencss  had  been  the  leading 
characteristics  of  the  establishmcni  since  its 
foundation.    Homesteads  have  a  recognisable 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  179 

expression  at  first  sight,  even  as  their 
proprietors. 

A  neat  brown-faced  groom  took  the  horses 
from  the  young  men  as  they  dismounted, 
looking  critically  at  the  rather  '  tucked  up ' 
condition  of  the  parson's  steed.  '  Take  Mr. 
Courtenay's  horse  to  a  box  and  feed  him 
till  sundown  ;  then  put  him  into  the  creek 
paddock.  Go  round  and  tell  the  hands  to 
roll  up  in  the  shed  at  half-past  seven  to- 
night. Mr,  Courtenay  will  hold  service.' 
The  groom  touched  his  hat  with  a  gesture 
of  assent,  and  departed  with  his  charge. 

The  principal  sitting-room  at  Maroobil  was 
a  fairly  large  apartment,  which  did  not  aspire 
to  the  dignity  of  a  drawing-room.  In  the 
days  of  his  father  and  mother  Harold  had 
always  remembered  them  sitting  there  in  the 
evenings  after  the  evening  meal  had  been 
cleared  away.  There  was  a  large  old- 
fashioned  fireplace,  where  in  winter  such  a 
fire  glowed  as  effectually  prevented  those 
in  the  room  from  being  cold.  A  solid 
mahogany  table  enabled  any  one  to  read  or 
write  thereon  with  comfort.  And  Harold 
was  one  of  those  persons   who  was  unable 


I  So  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

to  pass  his  evenings  in  a  general  way  without 
doine  more  or  less  of  both.  A  well-chosen 
library,  with  most  of  the  standard  authors 
and  a  reasonable  infusion  of  modern  light 
literature,  filled  up  one  end  of  the  room. 
Sofas  and  lounges  helped  to  redeem  the 
room  from  stiffness  or  discomfort.  Full- 
length  portraits  in  oil  of  Harold's  father  and 
mother,  as  also  of  a  preceding  generation, 
with  an  admiral  who  had  fought  at  Trafalgar, 
adorned  the  walls. 

A  stag's  head  and  antlers  sliot  in  New 
Zealand,  with  a  brace  of  stuffed  pheasants 
and  the  brush  of  an  Australian -bred  fox, 
were  fi.xed  over  doorways.  Guns  and  rilles 
of  every  kind  of  size,  gauge,  and  construction 
filled  a  coujjle  of  racks.  y\ll  things  were 
neat  and  scrupulously  clean,  but  tlu-re  was 
that  total  absence  of  ornamciUalion  which 
characterises  a  bachelor  establishment  of  a 
settled  and  confirmed  type. 

In  the  evening,  when  the  master  of  the 
establishment  and  his  cktrical  guest  walked 
across  thcr  half-mile  which  separated  the 
wool-shed  h'oin  ihe  house; — anolher  old-world 
iiislilutioii    al)siir(il)'   near    the   honuiste.id,   as 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  i8i 

the  overseer,  a  '  Riverina  man  '  of  advanced 
views,  declared — a  fairly  numerous  congrega- 
tion was  assembled.  The  chairs  and  forms 
had  been  conveniently  placed  for  the  people. 
The  wool  table  had  been  dressed  up,  so  as 
to  be  made  a  serviceable  readinsf  -  desk. 
Candles  in  tin  sconces  lit  up  the  building 
— a  matter  which  had  been  found  necessary 
during  theatrical  representations  in  the  same 
building  during  the  shearing  season,  when 
travelling  troupes  of  various  orders  of  merit 
essay  to  levy  toll  on  the  cash  earnings  so 
freely  disbursed  at  such  times. 

It  was  a  representative  gathering,  in  some 
respects  a  strange  and  pathetic  assemblage. 
It  was  known  that  Mr.  Atherstone  par- 
ticularly wished  all  his  employees  to  attend 
these  occasional  services,  and  to  pay  due 
respect  to  whatever  clergyman,  in  the  exer- 
cise of  his  vocation,  might  find  his  way  to 
Maroobil.  Harold  was  unprejudiced  as  to 
denominations,  although  firmly  attached  to 
his  own,  and  exacted  as  far  as  possible  a 
decent  recognition  of  the  trouble  and  personal 
expenditure  undertaken  for  the  spiritual 
welfare  of  the  neiofhbourhood. 


iS2  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

On  the  nearest  form  might  be  seen  the 
unmistakable  type  of  the  English  peasant 
from  Essex.  The  gardener,  John  Thrum, 
and  his  wife,  had  emigrated  from  Hishop- 
Stortford  thirty  years  ago,  and  hnding  a 
congenial  resting-place  at  Maroobil,  had 
remained  there  ever  since,  saving  their 
money,  and  at  the  beginning  of  every  year 
expressing  their  determination  to  '  go  home 
to  England.'  A  dozen  station  hands  and 
boundary  riders  exhibited  bronzed  and  sun- 
burnt features,  darkened  almost  to  the  com- 
plexion of  '  Hig  I)illy,'  the  black  fellow,  who, 
with  a  clean  shirt  and  a  countenance  of 
edifying  solemnity,  sat  on  one  of  the  back 
benches.  A  score  of  young  men  and  lads, 
long  of  limb,  rather  slouching  of  manner, 
with  regular  features  and  athletic  frames, 
showed  a  general  resemblance  in  type,  such 
as  that  towards  which  the  Anglo-Cellic  and 
Anglo-Saxon  Australian  is  gradually  merg- 
ing. A  few  women  and  {hildren,  a  stray 
hawker,  a  policeman  on  the  track  <if  horsc;- 
stealers,  resplendent  in  s|)otless  boots  and 
breeches — voild  tons  !  rher(!  were  Roman 
Catholics  amon<''  the  crowd,  I)Ul  much  abidiiiLr 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  183 


in  the  backwoods  had  rubbed  off  prejudice. 
Padres  were  scarce,  anyhow.  There  was 
no  chapel  within  fifty  miles,  and  they  didn't 
think  it  would  be  any  harm  to  come. 

For  the  rest,  the  service  of  the  Church 
of  England,  slightly  condensed,  was  gone 
through  ;  a  plain,  serviceable  sermon,  sound 
in  doctrine  and  not  above  the  heads  of  the 
hearers,  was  administered ;  the  benediction 
was  said ;  and  the  little  congregation  composed 
of  such  different  elements  dispersed— some 
of  them  certainly  soothed  and  comforted  by 
the  familiar  words,  if  by  nought  else  ;  others, 
let  us  hope,  induced  to  consider  or  amend 
their  course  of  life,  where  such  was  needful. 

As  the  young  men  strolled  home  back 
to  the  homestead  the  clergyman,  after  a 
pause,  said,  '  It  often  oppresses  me  with  a 
feelinsf  of  sadness,  the  doubt  which  I  feel 
whether  any  appreciable  good  results  from 
these  occasional  services,  the  efforts  of 
myself  and  other  men,  who  labour  under 
different  titles  in  the  Lord's  vineyard. 
When  we  reflect  on  the  lives  these  men, 
almost  without  exception,  lead  —  the  old 
gardener,    perhaps,    the   sole   exception,    and 


i84  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

the  women  and  children—a  man  may  well 
doubt  whether  he  is  not  wcarinGf  out  liis 
life  for  nou<2:ht.' 

'  It's  hard  to  say,'  answered  Harold.  '  It 
the  soldier  does  not  fight,  the  battle  is  not 
won.  One  does  not  see  much  improvement, 
certainly,  from  decade  to  decade.  Perhaps 
there  is  less  of  the  open,  reckless  profligacy 
that  we  used  to  hear  of  in  our  boyhood. 
But  no  doubt  most  of  the  men  that  we  saw 
to-night  gamble,  drink,  and  in  riotous  living 
of  one  form  or  other  dispose  of  their  yearly 
wages ;  confessedly  going  to  town  at  Christ- 
mas, or  some  other  holiday,  to  "  knock  it 
down."  ' 

'  All  of  them  ?  '  said  iIk^  preacher.  '  Surely 
there  must  be  some  of  thcMu  who  do  not  .'* ' 

'  Well,  not  the  marrieil  men  perhaps — 
those  who  have  farms  and  wlio  live;  in  ihe 
cooler  regions,  near  the  foothills,  as  the 
Americans  say,  of  the  great  mountain-chain. 
They  save  their  money,  and  take  it  home  to 
their  wives;  it  helps  for  harvest  antl  other 
lime  of  need.  I)Ut  the  oKlcr  men,  the 
regular  nomadic  hands,  who  are  rarel\ 
ni.u'il'i],  and   th<-  boys,  save   iiolhing,   except 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  1S5 

for  a  grand  annual  carnival,  which  after  a 
month  leaves  them  penniless  for  another 
year.' 

'  A  practice  which  must  have  the  most 
demoralising  effect  upon  these  poor  victims 
of  drink  and  debauchery  ?  ' 

'  I  really  can't  say  that  it  has,'  replied 
Harold  Atherstone.  '  That  is  the  extra- 
ordinary part  of  it.  That  grizzled,  clean- 
shaved  man  with  the  square  shoulders  and 
highly  respectable  English  appearance  is  a 
Devonshire  man,  who  came  here  early  in 
life.  He  has  been  employed  on  Maroobil, 
off  and  on,  ever  since  I  remember.  He 
never  drinks  when  at  work.  You  might 
send  him  into  the  township  with  a  five- 
pound  note  any  day  and  he  would  return 
sober.  He  is  as  hard  as  nails.  I  would 
take  his  word  as  soon  as  any  friend  I  know. 
He  is  brave,  honest,  hard-working,  simple. 
As  a  labourer  he  is  without  a  fault.  He  is 
the  stuff  of  which  England's  best  soldiers 
and  sailors  are  made.      And  yet ' 

'  And  yet  what  ?  ' 

•  He  is  a  hopeless  and  irreclaimable 
drunkard.     He  has  collected  his  knock-about 


iS6  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

money,  his  shearing,  and  his  harvest  money 
about  the  end  of  January.  Hy  the  first  or 
second  week  in  March  he  has  not  a  shilHng 
in  the  world — starting  out  "on  the  wallaby," 
as  he  calls  it,  sober  and  penniless,  with 
barely  a  shirt  to  his  back,  trusting  to  the  first 
job  he  meets  for  food  and  covering.  What 
are  you  to  do  with  a  man  like  that  ? ' 

'  Surely  a  word  in  season  might  inlluence 
him  ?  ' 

'  Not  if  one  rose  from  the  dead. 

*  Because,  now  consider  the  case  carefully, 
as  Mr.  Jaggers  says.  Here  is  a  ni;ui  who 
has  self-denial  enough,  with  the  raging 
drunkard's  thirst  upon  him,  to  suddenly  de- 
termine to  abstain  wholly,  solely,  and  abso- 
lutely from  even  a  teaspoonful  of  beer,  wine, 
or  alcohol,  with  gallons  of  il  under  his  nose- 
at  every  public-house  he  [)asses.  When  you 
talk  to  him  he  is  as  sobt.-r  as  I  am — more  so 
indeed,  for  I  am  going  to  have  a  glass  of 
whisky  and  water  to-night,  whereas  he  will 
touch  nothing  for  nearly  a  year.  Me  says, 
"  Well,  master,  1  be  always  main  sorr)-  at  the 
lime,  and  I  tlo  aim  not  to  lou(  h  il  no  more, 
jlui    ihe   de\  il,    he    be    loo   SlroULT    lor    I,    and 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  187 

zumhow  or  zumhow,  the  old  feeling  comes 
over  me  arter  Christmas  time,  and  I  knocks 
all  the  cheques  down,  zame  as  before.  But 
I've  neither  chick  nor  child,  and  I  reckon  I 
harm  no  one  but  myself." 

' "  But  you'll  die  in  a  ditch  some  day, 
Ben,"  I  say  to  him. 

'  "  Like  as  not,  master,"  he  replies,  quite 
good-humouredly  ;  "  and  no  great  matter.  A 
man  must  die  when  his  turn  comes.  But 
you'll  have  the  hay  spoiling,  master,  if  you 
keeps  a-talkin'  to  your  hands  'stead  of  drivin' 
'em  at  their  work."  ' 

'  How  it  must  ruin  their  constitution  !  ' 
groaned  the  clergyman.  '  They  can't  have 
a  healthy  pulse  or  movement.' 

'  Even  that  is  not  borne  out  by  fact,'  said 
the  squatter.  '  Have  up  this  old  private  in 
the  industrial  army,  and  what  do  you  find  ? 
His  eye  is  clear,  his  cheek  is  healthy  and 
brown.  Let  either  of  us,  fairly  strong  men 
— taller  and  broader  too — stand  alongside 
of  him  at  a  hard  day's  work,  and  see  where 
we  shall  be  !  Every  muscle  and  sinew, 
strained  and  tested  since  childhood,  is  like 
wire  compared   to  cord.      The  country-bred 


1 88  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap, 

Englishman  is  certainly  the  best  working 
animal  in  the  world,  and  I  cannot  conscien- 
tiously say  that  this  man's  bodily  or  mental 
powers  have  suffered  for  the  life  he  has  led.' 

'  Is  there  no  hope,  then  ?'  said  the  young 
preacher  despondingly.  '  Must  the  best 
and  bravest  of  the  race  be  doomed  to  this 
hopeless  degradation  ?  The  preacher's  warn- 
ing is  useless,  the  kindly  master's  advice, 
the  teaching  of  experience,  the  voice  of  God. 
What  are  we  to  look  to  in  the  future  ?  ' 

'  To  the  spread  of  education  and  the 
development  of  intelligence.  I  see  no  other 
safeguard.  Ben  can  neither  read  nor  write. 
Hundreds  like  him  can  do  so  with  difficulty 
— which  amounts  to  nearly  the  same  thing. 
A  certain  reaction  sets  in  after  continuous 
labour.  What  change  or  recreation  have 
these  barrLMi  intelligences  so  coinpldc,  so 
transforming  as  the  madness  of  intoxication  } 
With  culture  -national  and  universal — will 
com(;  additional  means  ol  recreation  a 
hundredfold  multiplied.  Willi  the  refine- 
ment inseparabl(!  from  edue.iiion  will  come 
the  (listasl<-  for  imhrldlcd  debaiichcrv.  lor 
thf     coarse    and     degrading    enjo\  inenis     of 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION 


mere  sensuality,  for  a  practice  which  will 
have  become  unfashionable  with  every  grade 
and  every  class  of  society.' 

'  Then  you  trust  in  the  millennium  of 
universal  education — secular  or  otherwise — 
not  fearing  the  communistic  and  atheistic 
principles  which  may  be  involved  by  mere 
mental  culture  unregulated  by  religious 
teaching.' 

*  So  long  as  the  race  preserves  the  attri- 
butes which  have  always  distinguished  it,  so 
long  as  the  passions  disturb  the  reasoning 
powers,  so  long  as  the  body  preserves  its 
present  relation  to  the  spirit,  men  will  drink 
to  heighten  pleasure  or  to  dull  pain.  But 
in  proportion  as  the  mental  powers  are  de- 
veloped and  refined  by  culture,  so  will  the 
vice  which  we  call  drunkenness  diminish, 
perhaps  disappear.  With  other  results  of 
the  tillage  of  that  rich  and  boundless  estate, 
the  nation's  mind,  so  long  fallow,  so  negli- 
gently worked,  I  shall  not  at  present  concern 
myself.      I  have  my  own  opinion.' 

'You  will  not  take  anything.'^'  said  Ather- 
stone,  lighting  his  pipe  as  the  two  men  sat 
over   the    wide   fireplace    upon    their   return 


I90  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

from  the  wool-shed.  '  Light  wine  or  spirits 
you  will  find  on  the  tray  ;  the  aerated  water 
is  yonder.' 

'  1  ihink  it  l)ettcr  for  iih;  to  practise  what 
I  preach  in  the  matter  of  intoxicating  liquors,' 
said  Mr.  Courtenay,  filling  a  large  tumbler 
with  the  aerated  water.  '  This  is  very  re- 
freshing— though  1  do  not  feel  called  upon 
to  denounce  the  moderate  use  of  what  was 
doubtless  ordained  for  wise  purposes.' 

'  I  can  put  your  horse  in  the  paddock,  and 
let  me  drive  you  over  to  Corindah,'  said  the 
host  after  breakfast  next  morning.  '  He  will 
be  all  the  better  for  it.  and  on  return  you 
can  make  across  to  \ 'andah  just  as  well  from 
here.  I'll  send  Jack  with  you  across  the 
bush,  and  Ik;'!!  put  you  on  to  the  main  Wan- 
nonbah  road.' 

'Thank  you  very  much.  Mr.  Atherstone  ; 
you  are  always  considerate.  1  began  to  think 
Rover  was  failing  a  little;  yet  I  had  only 
ridden  him  lorty  mili-s  when   1  met  \()u.' 

'  jjefore  hmch-timc  V  said  the  other,  smil- 
ing. '  \\  «1].  he  is  a  good  horse,  and  carries 
you   well  ;    only,    when   xou  come  back   Irom 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  191 

Yandah,  I'd  put  the  other  nag  into  commis- 
sion. Leave  Rover  here  till  autumn,  and 
he'll  be  fat  and  strong  to  carry  you  all  the 
winter.  And  now,  if  you  have  any  writing 
to  do  before  lunch,  I  must  leave  you  in  pos- 
session. We'll  start  at  half-past  three  sharp. 
There's  the  library,  the  writing-table,  the 
house  generally,  to  do  as  you  like  with  till  I 
come  back  to  lunch.' 

Punctually  at  the  appointed  hour  after 
lunch  the  pair  of  fast -trotting,  well-bred 
buggy  horses  whirled  the  two  young  men 
away  on  the  track  to  Corindah,  a  pathway 
which,  already  well-beaten,  did  not  appear  to 
be  in  danger  of  becoming  faint  from  disuse. 

Arriving  before  sundown,  they  were  re- 
ceived with  unmistakable  cordiality  by  the 
lady  of  the  house,  who  explained  that  Pollie 
had  gone  out  for  a  ride  with  her  cousin,  but 
would  be  home  by  tea-time.  This  trifling 
piece  of  intelligence  did  not,  strange  to  relate, 
appear  to  add  to  the  satisfaction  of  either 
guest.  Nor  even  when  the  missing  damsel 
came  riding  in,  looking  deliciously  fresh  and 
exhilarated  by  the  healthful  exercise,  talking 
in  an  animated  way  to  Mr,  Bertram  Devereux, 


192  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiai-. 

who,  attired  with  great  neatness  and  mounted 
upon  the  handsomest  horse  that  Corindah 
'had  to  its  name,'  looked  hke  an  equestrian 
lounger  from  Rotten  Row,  was  their  equa- 
nimity altogether  restored.  Harold  was  re- 
served and  imperturbable  as  usual — even 
more  so.  Mr.  Courtenay  discoursed  gloomily 
about  tlu,'  low  state  of  morality  everywhere 
apparent  in  the  bush.  The  rather  carefully 
prepared  tea  entcriaimncni,  to  which  poor 
]\Irs.  Devereux  liad  looked  forward  with  a 
certain  pleasurable  anticipation,  j^roved  llat 
and  uninteresting. 

The  attendance  was  comparatively  large 
in  the  dining-room  of  the  bachelor's  quarters, 
which  Mrs.  Devereux  had  caused  to  be 
rigorously  cleaned  out  lor  the  occasion.  lUii 
it  was  agreed  that  the  sermon  of  Mr, 
Courtenay  was  not  so  good  as  usual  ;  that  he 
had  'gone  off  in  his  preaching,  antl  had  not 
been  so  pleasant-mannered  as  was  his  wont. 
Mrs.  Devereux  was  lost  in  astonishment  at 
the  variation  in  his  jxTlormance  ami  do 
meanour,  and  conclucU^d  by  remarking  to 
Pollie  i^rivalcl)- that  cl(,'rgym(Mi  were  uncertain 
in    their    ways,  and    that    Mr.    Courlena\-    in 


VI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  193 

particular,  must  have  been  overworking  him- 
self lately,  which  accounted  for  his  altered 
form. 

Mrs.  Devereux  was  anxious  to  confide  in 
Harold  about  Mr.  Charteris'  unlucky  declara- 
tion before  his  departure,  and  to  assure  her- 
self of  his  approval  of  her  conduct.  She 
knew  that  the  young  men  were  as  brothers, 
and  that  Mr.  Charteris  would  by  no  means 
object  to  such  a  proceeding.  But  Harold 
said  rather  sternly  that  he  and  Mr.  Courtenay 
must  drive  home  that  afternoon :  he  had 
work  to  do,  etc.  ;  and  in  spite  of  an  appealing 
and  surprised  glance  from  Miss  Pollie,  he 
adhered  to  his  resolution,  and  after  saying 
farewell  formally,  was  seen  no  more. 


CIIArTKR    \'II 

Though  there  was  noihing  overt  in  the 
manner  of  Harold  Atherstone  upon  which 
she  could  fasten  as  showing  resentment  or 
offence,  yet  did  Miss  Devereux  acknowledge 
in  her  secret  heart  a  coolness  in  the  demean- 
our of  her  old  friend  which  troubled  her. 
He  was  always  so  kind,  s(^  honest,  so 
considerate.  '  Tender  ami  trut; '  exjjressed 
her  thoughts.  She  could  not  think  of  his 
disapproval  without  regret,  evcMi  pain.  He 
h  id  a  way  of  always  being  in  the  right,  too. 
( )n  many  occasions  had  they  dilfered  in 
opinion.  She  recalled  how  invariably  it  had 
been  forced  upon  her  cooler,  justcr  self  that 
his  opinion  had  be(!n  correct  Iroin  the  be 
ginning.  Suppc^sc,  she  thought  to  herself, 
as  she  leaned  oul  ol  ihc  window  and  watched 


CHAP.  VII  THE  CROOKED  STICK  195 

the  Stars  with  strange  undefined  yearnings, 
that  Harold  should  be  right  this  time !  He 
had  said  nothing,  only  showed  by  his  man- 
ner, by  his  countenance,  every  inflexion  of 
which  she  knew  so  well,  that  he  disliked  this 
increasing  intimacy  with  her  cousin.  Was 
it  increasing?  A  mere  half- friendship, 
founded  on  curiosity,  admiration  of  the 
unknown,  upon  her  own  ideal,  enveloping 
him  like  a  costume  at  a  masquerade. 

It  is  possible  that  this  highly  important 
retrospective  process  might  have  proceeded 
to  much  greater  length  and  depth  of  research, 
that  curiously  constructed  organ  the  female 
heart  being  full  of  all  manner  of  strange 
corridors,  galleries,  and  shafts,  of  utterly 
unknown  measure  and  limit.  But  circum- 
stances arose — circumstances  which  altered 
the  aspect  of  affairs — which  turned  tempor- 
arily the  maiden's  thoughts  into  far  other 
channels. 

The  season  being  so  exceptionally  good, 
the  stock  and  station  being  nearly  'able 
to  manage  themselves,'  as  Mr.  Gate  ward 
expressed  it,  the  highly  original  idea  of  a 
summer  trip,  for  the  benefit  of  her  own  and 


196  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

her  daughter's  health,  suggested  itself  to  the 
mind  of  INIrs.  Uevereux. 

'  Poor  dear !  she  has  been  shut  up  here 
quite  long  enough,'  said  the  loving  mother. 
'  I  can't  say  that  she  doesn't  look  well,  but  a 
voyage  must  benefit  her.  It  will  give  a 
change  of  ideas.  It  may  take  away  lliat 
restless,  discontented  feeling  which  comes  to 
her  now  so  often.' 

Thereupon  it  was  decided  tliat  tliey  were 
to  go  to  Sydney,  and  spend  a  fortnight 
among  their  friends.  Then  by  steamer  to 
Melbourne.  T'rom  that  city  they  would  lake 
one  of  the  New  Zealand  boats,  so  as  to  pass 
a  portion  of  the  summer  at  the  fairy  lakes  of 
Rotomahana  and  the  hot  springs  of  ^\^aiwera 
— that  modern  imitation  of  Paradise. 

I'or  this  unprecedented  step  Mrs.  Devereux 
had  more  than  one  reason.  She  ceitainly 
thought  it  would  tend  to  her  darling's  menial 
and  bodily  improvcmcnl.  lUil  llial  was  noi 
all.  Willi  womanly  (juickness  sharjKaied  by 
a  mother's  instinct,  she  had  divined  that  the 
intimacy  between  Pollie  and  her  cousin  was 
slowly  but  surely  coming  closer,  nearer, 
perhaps  dearer. 


VII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  197 

Of  the  probable  denouement  she  had  an 
instinctive  dread.  '  I  don't  know  what  it  is,' 
she  said  to  herself,  '  but  I  can't  altogether 
put  faith  in  Bertram.  It  isn't  that  I  can  say 
anything  against  him.  He  is  clever,  manly, 
good-looking  in  his  way,  I  didn't  think  so 
at  first.  But  somehow  I  don't  seem  to  be 
able  to  know  him.  He  is  as  great  a  stranger 
as  the  first  day  I  set  eyes  upon  him.  Oh  ! 
why  can't  she  take  Harold  Atherstone,  who 
is  worth  half  a  dozen  of  him — of  any  other 
man  I  ever  saw,  except  poor  Brian  ? ' 

If  there  was  any  regret  at  parting  with 
any  one  at  Corindah,  Pollie  availed  herself 
of  one  of  the  sex's  weapons,  and  reticently 
made  no  sign.  She  appeared  to  be  wild 
with  delight  at  the 

sea-change 
Into  something  rich  and  strange, 

which  her  daily  life  was  presently  to 
undergo.  It  may  be  that  she  herself  was 
conscious  of  the  slowly  increasing  power  of  a 
fascination  which  she  was  powerless  to  resist. 
In  its  present  stage — such  is  the  curious, 
contradictory   nature  of  the   maiden's  heart 


198  THE  CROOKED  STICK  cnAr. 

— she  regarded  it  with  fear  and  unwilling- 
ness. 

Thus  she  caught  eagerly  at  the  chance 
afforded  her  of  a  totally  new  experience, 
of  the  strange  environments  of  a  delicious 
foreign  existence,  such  as  in  the  hiture  she 
might  never  have  the  chance  of  realising 
under  similar  conditions.  Joyous  anticipa- 
tion seemed  to  have  taken  possession  of  her 
mind  with  a  sudden  rush,  forcibly  expelling 
all  previous  sensations. 

I)ertram  Devereux  was  chagrined  at  the 
change  of  programme.  Coldly  sc:lf-pos- 
sessed  as  usual,  however,  he  betrayed  not, 
by  word  or  manner,  his  real  feeling  on  the 
subject. 

'Why  don't  you  go  home  to  Hngland 
while  you  an;  about  it,  Mrs.  Devereux.'^'  he 
asked.  '  Ihc  tlmi;  would  not  bt:  so  iiuuh 
longer.  \  Du  have  friends  and  relations 
there,  and  1  should  be  delighted  to  gi\e  )  ou 
introductions  to  some  of  mine.-.' 

'  \'ou  wxv.  'w\(V\vA  most  kind,'  said  the  un- 
suspecting matron,  c:ordiall\'  graldul  :  'but  a 
voyage  to  England  is  too  serious  a  matter  to 
be  undertaken  lighlK.      We  ant  doing  great 


VII  OR  FOLLIE'S  PROBATION  199 

things  in  going  to  New  Zealand  and  Mel- 
bourne. Nothing  would  induce  me  to  go  a 
step  farther,  or  to  stay  away  more  than  three 
or  four  months  at  the  outside.' 

'  I  feel  certain  that  your  daughter  would 
enjoy  the  European  travel.  It  would  be  new 
life  to  her,  and  would  even  benefit  you,  after 
your  many  anxieties,'  continued  the  tempter 
suavely.  '  There'll  be  nothing  to  do  here  or 
to  see  to  for  a  couple  of  years,  so  Gateward 
says.     You  could  spare  the  time  well.' 

'  You  seem  very  anxious  to  get  rid  of  us,' 
said  the  younger  lady,  with  a  pout.  '  Some 
people  will  think  six  months  a  long  time  to 
miss  us  from  Corindah.' 

'Can  you  think  /  shall  not  miss  you?' 
returned  he,  with  a  sudden  change  of  tone 
and  expression  which  thrilled  her  in  a  man- 
ner for  which  she  could  not  account,  as  he 
bent  his  searching,  steadfast  gaze  upon  her. 
'  But  you  ought  to  see  the  "  kingdoms  of  the 
world  and  the  glory  of  them  "  now  that  you 
have  the  opportunity.  I  should  follow  you, 
mentally,  all  the  way.' 

Here  one  of  his  rare  smiles  lit  up  his  face, 
as  he  gazed  at  her  with  the  tenderness  one 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


bestows  on  a  child  ;  and  again  her  eyes  sank 
under  his,  while  a  faint  tlush  tinged  her  snow- 
fair  cheek. 

'  Mother  and  I  cannot  make  up  our  minds 
to  such  an  expedition  as  going  to  England 
all  at  once,'  she  replied  slowly.  '  We  require 
to  be  educated  up  to  it.  Wait  until  we  return 
from  New  Zealand,  then  we  will  fold  our 
wings,  and  perhaps  make  ready  for  a  longer 
flight.' 

'  "  Would  I  were,  sweet  bird,  like  thee  !  "  ' 
hummed  Mr.  Devereu.x,  as  he  gracefully  de- 
clined further  controversy.  '  Some  of  these 
days  you  will  awake  to  your  privileges.  I 
suppose.  We  all  develop  b)-  unmarked 
changes,  none  the  less  surely,  however,  as 
fate  decrees.' 

Mrs.  l)ev(;reux  grew,  indeed,  half  afraid  of 
the  momentous  enlerprisc  on  which  she  was 
about  to  enter.  Supported,  however,  by  her 
daughter,  she  kept  up  to  the  task  of  packing 
and  providing  for  dcpartun;.  This  eventually 
took  the  form  of  being  drixen  to  the  nearest 
railway  icrniiiuis,  a  short  (l,i\'s  jounicy,  and 
being  deposited  in  a  Inst-class  carriage,  with 
all    their   effects    in    the    brake-van,    carefully 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION 


labelled.  The  next  morninor-  saw  them  in 
Sydney,  the  Sea-Queen  of  the  South,  some- 
what nervously  excited  at  being  so  far  from 
Corindah,  so  immeasurably  removed  from 
their  ordinary  life. 

'After  all,'  cried  Pollie,  as  they  sat  in  the 
balcony  of  their  hotel  after  breakfast,  and 
gazed  over  the  matchless  sea-lake,  gay  with 
boats  of  every  size  and  shape,  and  the 
argosies  of  all  lands,  while  beyond  lay  the 
grand  eternal  mystery  of  ocean,  guarded  only 
by  the  grim  sandstone  portals,  against  which 
so  many  ages  of  tidal  force  have  foamed  and 
raged  — '  after  all  we  make  too  much  of 
leaving  home  for  a  few  months'  travel.  What 
wonders  and  miracles  stay-at-home  people 
miss !  What  human  limpets  they  are ;  and 
how  narrow  are  their  paths  to  enjoyment !  "I 
feel  as  if  I  were  in  Paradise,  in  Paradise," ' 
she  warbled.  '  Oh,  what  a  change  from  our 
dear  old  monotonous  Corindah  !  ' 

'  Home  is  very  sweet  after  all,'  said  the 
elder  woman,  '  though  I  enjoy  this  lovely  sea- 
view.  But,  my  darling,  you  frighten  me  by 
these  expressions  of  wild  delight.  It  cannot 
be  good  for  any  one  to  revel  in  pleasure,  the 


202  THE  CROOKED  STICK  c\\\\\ 

mere  luxurious  sensation  of  change  of  scene, 
so  intensely,  so  passionately  as  you  do.  Such 
feelincfs  are  unsafe  for  women.  You  should 
moderate  them,  or  evil  may  come  to  you 
from  these  very  unchecked  emotions.' 

'  My  darling  old  mother,  I  am  positively 
shivering  with  delight  ;  but  why  should  this 
or  any  other  natural  impulse  be  wrong  ? 
Surely  we  are  given  these  feelings,  like  the 
rest  of  our  nature,  for  wise  reasons  }  Like 
speech,  laughter,  thought,  they  are  unutter- 
able mercies,  to  be  reasonably  used  and 
economised.  lUit  I  see  your  meaning,  and  I 
will  guard  my  emotions  a  little.  I  must  do 
so  when  I  get  to  the  hot  springs  Kden,  or  I 
shall  be  plunging  into  hot  water  in  mistake 
for  tepid.  Fancy  a  heroine  of  romance  boiled 
alive  ! ' 

'  1  )()n'i  talk  of  it.  my  darling,'  .said  Mrs. 
I  )evereux,  with  a  shudtlcr.  '  Really,  don't 
you  think  Melbourne  will  be  quite  far  enough, 
and  very  pleasant  at  this  tim(;  of  year?  W^e 
might  l(;ave  New  Zealand  till  aiiolhcr  lime' 

'  Not  for  worlds,'  said  the  sl<a(lfasl  damsel. 
'  I  want  to  get  a  little  nearer  lo  the  pole.  I 
shall  feel  like  an  Arclii:  e.\i)I(»rer.' 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION 


The  pleasures  of  the  metropoHs,  doubly- 
sweet  after  a  lengthened  absence,  had  been 
sipped  for  a  fortnight,  when  a  breezy  morn 
saw  the  ladies  of  Corindah  steaming  out  of 
the  harbour  on  board  the  Cathay,  a  mag- 
nificent sea  -  monster  of  the  P.  and  O. 
persuasion,  containing  all  kinds  of  delicious 
foreign  novelties,  social  and  material, 

'  Mother,  I  don't  think  I  can  have  been 
really  alive  before,'  exclaimed  Pollie,  as 
they  walked  down  the  splendid  flush  deck. 
*  I  suppose  I  was  living,  but  I  must  have 
been  in  a  state  of  torpor,  with  a  few 
mechanical  senses  feebly  revolving,  as  it 
were.  Isn't  this  unutterably  lovely — quite 
an  eastern  fairy-tale  in  action  ?  Look  at 
those  splendidly  ugly  Seedees  in  the  engine- 
room,  ghouls  and  afreets  every  one  ;  besides, 
even  the  lascars — what  classic  profiles  and 
lithe,  graceful  shapes  they  have  !  1  feel  in 
love  with  everybody  and  everything,  down 
to  the  Chinese  waiters  in  spotless  white.' 

When  the  heads  were  cleared,  and  the 
strong  north-easter  sent  the  Cat  hay  flying 
south  at  the  rate  of  fifteen  knots  per  hour, 
the  motion  was  increased  and  perhaps  com- 


204  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

plicated,  whereupon  an  entirely  new  class 
of  sensations  succeeded  those  of  rapturous 
delight  in  Pollie's  case,  in  consequence  of 
which  a  hasty  descent  into  the  cabin  was 
rendered  necessary. 

The  morning,  however,  brought  smoother 
seas  and  a  less  urgent  breath  from  yEolus. 
The  naturally  strong  constitution  of  the  girl 
triumphed  over  temporary  malaise,  and  soon 
she  was  enabled  to  sit  upon  deck  and  enjoy 
the  brilliant  and  wondrous  succession  of  sea 
and  shore  and  sky  pageants  unrolled  before 
her. 

A  full  complement  of  passengers,  bound 
to  and  from  all  parts  of  the  world,  had 
been  received  on  board,  so  that  Pollie's 
observant  eye  and  sympathetic  mind  had 
full  employment  as  the  long  rows  of  chairs 
became  gradually  tilled.  People  for  India, 
via  Ceylon  ;  home  -  returning  officers  anil 
civilians  having  e.xhausted  their  furlough  ; 
globe-trotters  who  had  traversed  the  Aus- 
tralian world  from  1  ).m  to  rx-crshcba  and 
f(jund  all  barren,  or  'not  hall  a  bad  place,' 
according  to  the  state  of  ihcir  li\iiig  or  their 
rece[)tion  in  clubs  ami  coteries  ;   home-rc;lLirn- 


VII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  205 

ing  Australians,  visiting  Europe  for  the  first 
time  in  their  Hves,  or  after  many  years ; 
mere  intercolonial  voyagers  like  themselves ; 
a  successful  gold-digger  or  two,  treating 
themselves  to  first-class  passages,  plain  of 
aspect,  but  reserved  and  correct  of  manner, 
as  such  men  generally  are,  whatever  may  be 
said  to  the  contrary  by  superficial  scribes. 
After  Pollie  had  got  over  her  astonished 
delight  at  the  Arabian  Nights  portion  of  the 
ship,  she  found  a  new  world  of  interest  and 
romance  opening  before  her  eyes  in  the 
Anglo-Saxon  section  comprising  the  first- 
class  passengers.  This  was  not  lessened  in 
any  way  when,  lunch  being  announced,  she 
found  her  mother  and  herself  placed  in  seats 
of  honour  on  the  right  hand  of  His  Majesty 
the  Captain — such  being  his  royal  command 
— while  the  wife  of  an  eminent  Indian  civilian 
looked  indignantly  and  incredulously  at  them 
from  the  opposite  side  of  the  table. 

It  had  leaked  out  through  a  Sydney  friend 
of  Captain  Belmont's  that  this  was  the  Mrs. 
Devereux  of  Corindah  and  her  daughter,  who 
had  taken  their  passages  in  the  Cathay  en 
route  to  New  Zealand,  persons  of  fabulous 


2o6  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

wealth,  girl  sole  heiress,  could  not  be  worth 
less  than  a  hundred  thousand,  besides  free- 
hold property,  and  so  on.  Now  Pollie  was 
unquestionably  the  belle  of  the  ship,  and 
persons  of  prepossessing  appearance  were 
not  scarce  either;  but  the  slight  paleness 
and  languor  produced  by  her  unwonted 
sensations  had  given  her  haughty  beauty  a 
tinge  of  softness  which,  when  she  issued  from 
her  cabin,  made  her  positively  irresistible. 
So  the  captain,  an  experienced  but  suscep- 
tible bachelor,  had  avowed  with  many  nautical 
asseverations,  and  thereupon  directed  the 
[purser,  a  most  distinguished  individual  in 
uniform,  whom  Pollie  took  to  bi^  an  admiral 
at  least,  to  induct  them  into  the  place  of 
honour. 

When  a  glass  of  claret  and  Scltcrs-water, 
insisted  u\)o\\  by  vhc  captain  as  a  mcilical 
necessity,  and  some  slight  refection  from  the: 
luxuriously  appointed  table  had  revived  the 
s|)irits  of  both  ladies,  Pollit:  was  enabled  to 
realise  her  jjosition.  llere  was  she,  seated 
almost  upon  the  dais  in  jxiint  of  social 
elevation,  above  the  wives  ami  daughters 
of  the   mihlar)',  civil,   ami    in<  rcaiitile   swells, 


VII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION     .  207 

palpably  receiving  the  most  assiduous  at- 
tention from  the  acknowledged  autocrat  of 
their  viondc — of  that  loftiest,  most  resistless 
of  despots,  that  uncrowned  king,  the  captain 
of  a  crack  ocean  steamer  on  board  his  own 
ship. 

Besides  his  dazzling  and  unquestioned 
superiority.  Captain  Belmont  was  a  handsome, 
striking-looking  man.  Courteous,  polished 
even  in  manner,  he  had  the  eagle  eye,  the 
air  of  resolute  command,  with  which  years 
of  unquestioned  authority  invest  the  sea- 
king.  Prompt,  watchful,  fearless,  scorning 
sleep  or  fatigue  when  danger  menaced,  the 
arbiter  of  freedom  or  imprisonment  within 
his  own  realm,  the  guardian  of  every  life 
so  confidently  entrusted  to  his  care — where 
is  the  man  who  to  the  maiden's  heart,  during: 
the  long  reveries  of  a  sea  voyage,  so  amply 
fills  the  character  of  a  hero  of  romance  as  the 
captain  ?  Who  has  not  marked  his  influence 
in  danger's  darkest  hour,  when  the  moaning 
wind,  rising  fast  to  the  shriek  of  the  tempest, 
the  lurid  sky,  the  labouring  bark,  and  'the 
remorseless  dash  of  billows,'  all  speak  to 
the  fear-stricken  crowd  of  dread  endings,  of 


2o8  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

wreck  in  mid-ocean?  In  such  an  hour  how 
does  every  eye  turn  to  the  cahn,  resolute 
seaman,  who  directs  every  act,  who  foresees 
the  need  of  every  rope  that  is  drawn,  of 
every  turn  of  the  hehn  !  I  low  does  every 
Hstener  hang  upon  iiis  words  and  dwell  upon 
his  lightest  syllable  of  hope  ! 

Has  no  one  seen  the  grateful  company  of 
passengers  when  land  was  reached,  and,  as 
they  deemed,  throuL^h  his  skill  and  vigilance 
those  lives  were  sa\cd  which,  in  the  hour  of 
deadly  peril,  he  held  in  the  hollow  of  his  hand 
— gather  around  the  captain  to  express  such 
words  of  grateful  confidence  as  are  seldom 
yielded  to  man,  the  women  tearful,  the  men 
pressing  to  shake  his  hand  with  honest 
friendliness?  Such  a  meeting  took  place, 
afl(,T  a  dangerous  voyage,  in  honour  ol  one 
who  for  twent\-  years  IkuI  worihiK  home 
the  name  of  being  one  of  Uritain's  best  and 
boldest  seamen.  And  the  impression  on  the 
mind  of  one  eye-witness  was   never  ellaced. 

li  was,  therefore,  a  new  and  intoxicating 
jjosilion  in  which  Miss  Tollic  Dcvercux 
found  herself  The  acknowledged  object  ol 
respectful    admir.itioii    to    iliis    respleiidcntly 


VII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  209 

heroic  character,  and  on  equal  terms  with 
all  the  other  potentates,  from  the  first  officer 
— a  magnificent  personage,  and  second  only 
to  the  captain  in  importance — while  the  rank 
and  file  of  passengers  stood  aloof  in  timid 
or  cynical  survey  of  the  damsel  whom  the 
Ahasuerus  of  the  hour  delighted  to  honour. 

Though  partially  awed  by  the  eminence 
of  their  position,  Mrs.  Devereux,  who  had 
been  accustomed  in  her  time  to  much  of 
respect  and  consideration,  saw  nothing  very 
unusual  in  their  promotion.  Pollie  herself 
was  charmed  to  find  herself  on  equal  con- 
versational terms  with  such  an  autocrat. 
With  girlish  eagerness  she  pressed  him  to 
tell  her  of  the  dangers  he  had  braved  and 
the  wonders  he  had  seen.  He,  nothing  loath, 
produced  from  time  to  time,  in  temptingly 
small  quantities,  precious  reminiscences  of 
cyclones  in  the  China  seas,  pirate  schooners 
in  the  Spanish  Main,  slavers  in  Sierra 
Leone — for  he  had  been  in  the  navy — 
opium  clippers,  Chinese  mail-boats  taken 
by  mutineers  and  never  heard  of  after, 
wreck   and   fire,   even   all   kinds   of  peril   by 

sea   and    land    in    which    he    had    borne    a 

p 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


part  ;  so  that  PoUie  or  any  other  damsel 
might  be  pardoned  for  fechng  a  tem- 
porary conviction  that  such  a  man  had 
fTone  throuo^h  adventures  transcendinor  in 
interest  those  of  the:  lives  of  a  hundred 
mere  landsmen  —  that,  were  the  hero  of 
her  choice  a  sailor,  she  would  gladly  wear 
out  her  life  in  accompanying  him  in  his 
voyages. 

The  next  day  was  Sunday.  According 
to  custom,  the  lascar  crew  turned  out 
gorgeous  in  crimson-and-gold  scarfs,  spot- 
less white  robes,  and  embroidered  turbans, 
very  different  from  their  dingy  working  garb. 
After  breakfast,  when  the  captain  in  full  uni- 
form passed  close  between  the  duul)le  rank, 
with  the  air  of  Caliph  Ilaroun  Al-Raschid, 
lh(*  men  IowIn"  salaaming  as  ii  thaiikhil  not 
to  be  doomed  to  death  on  that  occasion,  il 
was  a  re[)roduclioii  in  llie  romantic  girl's 
brain  of  yet  another  chapter  in  the  rich 
traditional  glory  of  the  past.  I-^ven  the 
Seedees  gambolled  uncouthly  in  strange 
gaudy  r.iiment,  looking  like  slaves  who  had 
found  an  opulent  and  indulgent  master. 
The   while     I'oliic:    sal    in    ijreat    slate    on    a 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION 


cane  lounge  of  honour,  with  a  cushion 
under  her  feet  and  a  parasol  like  the 
Queen  of  Sheba's. 

Unfortunately  for  the  permanent  enjoy- 
ment of  these  dreamy  delights,  the  Cathay 
drove  through  '  The  Rip,'  at  the  entrance  to 
the  vast  haven  at  the  farther  end  of  which 
Melbourne  commences,  on  the  morning  of 
the  third  day.  A  short  railway  transit  saw 
them  deposited  at  the  Esplanade  Hotel, 
where  an  extended,  though  not,  critically 
speaking,  picturesque  sea-view  was  afforded 
to  them. 

Captain  Belmont  had,  with  the  dash  and 
rapidity  which  characterise  the  nautical 
admirer,  obtained  Mrs.  Devereux'  consent  to 
join  '  a  theatre  party  '  which  he  had  organised. 
As  it  happened,  an  actor  of  world-wide  repu- 
tation was  performing  a  favourite  melodrama 
of  his  own  composition.  This  was  a  chance, 
he  speciously  urged,  which  Miss  Devereux 
should  not  be  suffered  to  miss.  The  promise 
was  made.  The  captain  arrived  in  due  time 
and  escorted  them  to  the  Theatre  Royal, 
where  one  more  process  of  art-magic  was 
added  to  Pollie's  collection. 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


As  their  open  carriage  rolled  through  the 
wide,  straisTfht  streets,  in  which  lonij  rows 
of  lamps  glittered  on  either  side,  or  faded 
star-like  in  the  far  distance,  they  were  im- 
pressed with  the  utterly  different  expression 
of  Melbourne  from  that  of  their  own  fair  city 
by  the  sea. 

'What  a  wonderful  place!'  said  Pollie, 
gazing  up  the  great  street  which  contains  all 
the  pleasures  and  palaces,  and  is  nightly 
crowded  with  iheir  votaries.  '  1  low  the  lamps 
glow  and  shimmer  !  What  a  vast  size  and 
almost  sombre  uniformity  in  tlie  buildings 
which  line  the  streets  !  There  is  somethintj 
weird,  too,  in  the  electric  lights  which  create  a 
pale  daylight  around  those  endless  colonnades. 
I  feel  as  if  I  had  been  transported  to  some 
city  raised  by  the  wand  of  an  enchanter.' 

'  Not  unlike  a  little  sorcery,'  said  one  of 
the  party,  'when  you  come  to  tliink.  There 
were  gum-trees  and  blacks  here  "in  lull  blast" 
half  a  century  ago.  Mere  we  are  at  the 
Royal.' 

It  was  a  command  night.  The  rc;pre- 
sentativc  of  1  b.-r  Majesty  had  signified  his 
inlenlioii   of  being  present.      One  of  the  best 


VII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  213 

boxes  in  the  dress-circle — but  two  distant 
from  the  vice-regal  compartment — had  been 
secured  by  the  forecasting  captain.  The 
house  was  crammed.  As  the  popular 
governor  and  his  party  entered,  the  great 
assemblage  rose  like  one  man  to  the  air  of 
the  National  Anthem,  which  aroused  Pollie 
to  a  burst  of  loyal  enthusiasm. 

'  It  always  brings  the  tears  into  my  eyes,' 
she  said ;  '  it  looks  foolish,  but  I  cannot  help 
it.  Something  in  the  old  tune  and  the  rever- 
ence with  which  our  people  always  greet  it 
stirs  my  very  heart's  core.  I  suppose  these 
feelings  are  hereditary.' 

'  The  colonies  are  wonderfully  loyal,'  said 
the  captain.  '  I  never  saw  anything  like  it. 
You  are  more  English  than  the  English 
themselves.' 

'  I  hope  we  shall  always  remain  so,'  said 
Mrs.  Devereux,  '  though  I  believe  at  home 
they  think  we  must  be  essentially  different. 
But  the  curtain  rises.      Now,  Pollie!' 

It  follows,  as  a  thing  of  course,  that  the 
whole  party,  and  more  particularly  Pollie, 
with  her  sensitive  nature,  appreciative  as  well 
of  the  lightest  touches  of  humour  as  the  deeper 


214  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

tones  of  pathos,  were  charmed  with  the  play, 
which  had  enthralled  London  nii^-htly  for  a 
whole  year. 

When,  after  the  finale,  the  party  adjourned 
to  the  carefully  appointed  supper  which  the 
gallant  captain  had  insisted  upon  providing 
— when,  amid  the  popping  of  champagne 
corks,  a  flow  of  pleasant  criticism  and  enjoy- 
able badinage  went  round  —  Pollie  realised 
that  she  was  tasting  one  of  those  highly 
flavoured,  almost  forbidden  pleasures  of  life 
which  sh(;  had  read  of,  but  hardly  dared  to 
think  of  sharinq:. 

'This  sort  of  thing  is  too  good  to  be  true,' 
she  replied  to  Captain  Belmont,  who  was  ex- 
pressing his  general  and  particular  satisfaction 
with  'the  way  things  had  gone  off.'  'There 
is  so  much  enjoyment  that  it  must  be  a  little 
sinful.  l)()ii't  you  think  so?  I  shall  wake: 
to-morrow  to  Ini  1  it  all  a  dream  ;  or  mother 
will  decide  that  I  am  never  to  i^o  to  a  theatre 
party  again.' 

I'he  (;aj)tain  murmured  that  all  manner  of 
delights — the  joys  that  embellish  existence — 
were  in  liei-  power.  She  had  but  to  speak 
the   \V(jrd,    doubtless,    ami    sla\es    in    scores 


VII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  215 

would  be  at  her  command,  himself  among  the 
number,  only  too  happy  to  administer  to  her 
slio-htest  wish  now  and  for  his  whole  life  after. 
Here  the  captain's  deep  voice  faltered,  and 
his  expressive  eyes,  which  had  done  only  too 
much  execution  in  their  day,  were  fixed  on 
hers  with  an  ardent,  well-nigh  magnetic  gaze. 
The  girl  trembled  involuntarily  for  a  moment, 
and  then  laughed  lighdy,  as  she  replied,  '  Is 
that  out  of  a  play,  Captain  Belmont?  I  think 
I  have  heard  it  somewhere  before.  But  I 
feel  as  if  we  all  belonged  to  the  opera,  and 
that  even  compliments  of  that  sort  chime  in 
with  our  condition  in  life.' 

The  captain's  expression  changed  to  one 
almost  gravely  paternal  as  he  bowed  and 
trusted  she  might  never  meet  in  after  life  with 
friends  less  sincere  than  those  who  would  so 
deeply  regret  her  departure  from  the  Cathay. 
Then,  as  Mrs.  Devereux  made  the  slightlyper- 
ceptible  movement  which  defined  the  limit  of 
the  symposium,  they  joined  the  retreat,  and 
the  captain  surrendered  whatever  illusion  he 
may  have  cherished  concerning  his  too 
charming  passenger. 


CMAl^Tl'R    \'III 

After  the  splendour  and  distinction  of  the 
Cathay,  the  voyage  to  New  Zealand  was  a 
tame  affair,  voted  so  even  by  Mrs.  Devereux. 
Both  ladies  were  heartily  glad  when  the 
wooded  heitrhts  of  the  Britain  of  the  South 
rose  from  the  underworld,  and  they  ad- 
dressed themselves  to  the  great  question 
of  disembarkation  with  earnestness. 

Of  their  stay  in  the  land  of  llu;  Maori  and 
of  their  enjoyment  of  the  daily  supply  of 
deliohis  and  wonders,  it  were  superlluous  to 
K-ll  ;  of  i'ollie's  reverential  admiration  for  the 
first  Rangatira  whom  she  encountered — a 
grizzled,  war-worn  chief  who  had  fought 
stubbornly  against  us  at  the  (late  I'.ih.  and 
had  in  his  day  killed  (and  eaten)  many  a 
tribal  foe.  Upon  the  brilliant  xcrdun-  ol  the 
pasture   refreshed    b)'  lh<-   perennial    moisture 


CHAP.  VIII  THE  CROOKED  STICK  217 

of  a  sea-girdled  isle,  the  hawthorn  hedges, 
the  roadside  ditches,  the  old-world  English 
look  of  so  many  things  and  people,  she  was 
never  tired  of  expatiating.  The  people,  the 
scenery,  the  climate,  and  the  soil  were  new. 
The  forests  of  strange  glossy-leaved  trees,  of 
noble  pines,  of  clinging  parasites  with  crimson 
blossoms,  held  neither  bird,  nor  beast,  nor 
leaf,  nor  flower  akin  to  those  of  the  Australian 
continent. 

'  What  a  wonderful  region !  So  near  to 
us — a  few  days'  voyage  only — and  yet  so  un- 
like. And  what  a  sheep  country  !  No  dingoes, 
no  eagles,  no  snakes,  no  crows  !  This  last  is 
simply  incredible.  Fancy  a  country  without 
crows !  There  must  be  something  wrong 
about  it.  What  would  Mr.  Gateward  say  ? 
And  such  grass!  If  we  only  could  have 
"travelled"  over  here  in  the  drought!  It 
seems  hard  that  Providence  devoted  all  the 
intervening  distance  to  water.  Had  it  been 
dry  land,  it  would  have  been  worth  all  the 
rest  of  our  continent.' 

'  "The  earth  is  the  Lord's  and  the  fulness 
thereof,"  my  darling,'  said  the  mother.  '  I 
don't    like    to    hear    you    talk    lightly    about 


2i8  THE  CROOKED  STJCk'  chap. 

such  things.  Seas  and  lands  were  doubtless 
arranged  as  they  are  for  some  wise  purpose.' 

*  I  never  meant  to  be  irreverent,  my  dearest. 
1  was  only  thinking  what  a  {)ity  this  line  south 
latitude  region  should  be  useless.  Only  fancy, 
except  this  little  New  Zealand  dot,  there  is 
no  habitable  land  between  us  and  the  South 
Pole.  Oh!  1  forgot  the  Crozets — those 
islands  where  the  ship  was  wrecked,  and  the 
passengers  were  cast  away  nearly  twelve 
months.  All  their  hair  turned  white  as  fleeces. 
So  complexion  is  only  a  matter  of  latitude 
after  all.' 

Their  time  was  all  too  short  when  the 
route  was  again  given,  and  the  party  with 
which  they  had  amalgamated  proceeded  by 
tourist  stages  to  the  dream-region  of  Roto- 
mahana. 

(  )f  the  glories  and  triumphs  of  that  wonder- 
land who  shall  tell  adecjuately,  who  depict 
with   a  tithe  of  the   fresh   brilliant  colourinof 

o 

that  Nature — (earliest  of  Royal  Academicians 
— has  invented  .'* 

'  1  will  never  go  back."  (|iiolh  Pollie  ;  'here 
1  will  li\t;  and  ilie.  I  \sill  become  a  guide, 
like   Maori    Kate   here --magnificent  creature 


VIII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  219 

that  she  is  !  I  will  never  be  proud  of  civilisa- 
tion again.  What  do  we  get  by  it  forsooth  ? 
Headaches,  neuralgia,  nervous  systems,  tooth- 
aches, and  shortened  lives.  These  noble 
Maoris  never  have  headaches,  except  from 
too  much  rum — which  is  only  a  transient,  not 
a  chronic  ailment — but  unfailing  appetite, 
health,  strength  and  activity  ;  hair  that  doesn't 
come  out  or  turn  bald  and  grey  ;  teeth  that 
serve  to  reduce  food  and  not  to  enrich  dentists. 
I  say  we  are  manifestly  inferior  to  this 
noble  people.  Why  do  we  want  to  conquer 
them  or  convert  them  ? ' 

'  My  darling,'  said  Mrs.  Devereux,  '  this 
air  is  too  stimulating ;  I  am  afraid  you  are 
going  out  of  your  mind.  It  will  never  do  for 
you  to  go  on  in  England  like  this.  Fancy 
what  your  father's  family  would  think  ! ' 

'  I  shall  sober  down  before  we  take  our 
European  tour,'  answered  the  young  lady.  '  I 
shall  have  something  to  talk  about,  though, 
shan't  I  .'^  And  we  must  go  through  Paris  ;  I 
don't  want  to  be  "bonneted"  metaphorically 
(that's  rather  neat,  dear,  between  ourselves) 
because  my  headgear  is  not  up  to  the  fashion- 
able cousins'  standard.      But   I   think  I  could 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


hold  my  own.  1  shall  begin  by  being  very 
simple,  and  having  things  explained  to  me 
that  I  have  known  all  my  life  ;  then  dawn  on 
them  by  degrees.' 

'  My  darling,  you  only  need  to  be  your 
own  dear,  sweet  self,  and  be  assured  you 
will  be  able  to  ht)ld  your  own  with  any 
people  you  are  likely  to  meet  at  home  or 
abroad.  1  don't  wish  my  pet  to  affect  any- 
thing, either  below  or  above  her.  You  have 
great  natural  gifts,  a  fairly  good  education, 
and  what  experience  you  are  deficient  in 
will  always  be  made  up  by  your  unusual 
(juickness  of  comprehension.  That  is  your 
old  mother's  honest  opinion,  and  she  would 
not  deceive  you  for  the  world.' 

'Ami  1  care  not  two  straws  for  anybody 
else  in  comparison,  you  dear  old  tlarling. 
You  are  ever  so  clever  too — if  you  were 
not  so  unreasonably  diltident  about  yourself. 
However,  I  will  educate  you  when  we  reach 
I'^ngland.  \'()u'll  see  the  firm  of  "  I'ollit;  and 
Mother"  will  achieve  distinction.' 

The  summer  jo)s  passed  all  loo  (juickly. 
Why  cannot  one  remain  in  fairyland? 
I'erhaps    as    the    years    rolled    on    we   should 


VIII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  221 

hear  one  morning  a  dismal  summons.  The 
faces  of  our  gay  companions  would  undergo 
a  terrible  alteration.  The  dread  messenger 
had  arrived  who  was  to  exact  '  the  teind 
for  hell'  Thus  it  ran  in  the  old  ballad. 
So  True  Thomas  found  it.  The  fairy 
flowers  withered,  the  fay  faces  changed. 
All  was  pale,  awesome.  The  day  of  pay- 
ment for  pleasure  unstinted  and  unhallowed 
joys  had  arrived. 

There  is  always  a  day  of  reckoning,  a 
reactionary  change  from  pleasant  sojourns. 
True  Thomas  lies  beneath  the  *  knowe '  at 
Ercildoune.  Our  modern  fairies  are  clad  in 
tulle  and  tarlatan  ;  are  seen  beneath  electric 
lights.  Old  faiths  are  crumbling.  They  lie 
— like  '  ancient  thrones  ' — in  the  workrooms 
of  scientists  and  positivists.  Yet  still  is 
there  a  flavour  of  the  old-world  belief  which 
clings  about  us.  Remorse  and  regret, 
passion  and  despair,  survive.  And  even  as 
we  return  from  the  land  of  pleasure  along 
paths  of  duty,  the  refrain  sounds  sadly  in 
our  ears  that  all  earth's  joys  are  fleeting ; 
that  the  ocean  of  eternity  must  be  the  end 
of  life's  bark  ;    that  its  tideless  waves   may 


222  THE  CROOKED  STICK  cmap. 

ever     be     heard,     deeply     dirgeful,     in     the 
intervals  of  vanity  and  madness. 

So,  when  the  first  Australian  winter 
month — that  of  May — found  the  travellers 
again  en  route  for  Corindah,  where  every- 
thini^  bade  fair  to  be  as  quiet  and  peaceful 
as  on  the  day  they  left,  Pollie's  first  feelin^^ 
was  one  of  indefinable  regret.  '  I  could 
almost  wish  we  had  never  left  home,  mother,' 
she  said  ;  '  everything  will  look  so  quiet  and 
dull  lill  we  rec^ain  our  eyesight.  It  looks 
mean  and  ungrateful  to  the  dear  old  place 
and  our  friends  to  go  back  to  them  as  a 
kind  of  pis  allcr  after  having  exhausted 
the  pleasures  of  vagabondising.  I  suppose 
we  shall  drop  into  our  old  sleepy  w\ays 
again  by  degrees.  We  are  such  creatures 
of  habit.' 

'  For  my  part,  1  am  thankful  to  get  back,' 
said  Mrs.  Devereux.  '  My  dear  garden  will 
be  looking  so  well,  as  I  s(?e  that  they  have 
had  rain.  1  ([uilc  pine  lor  a  little  needle- 
work, t(K).  I  miss  my  sleatly  pin'suils,  1 
must  say.' 

'Garden!'  said  Pollie  disdainfiill\- ;  *a 
pretty  garden    il    will    look   after    the    bright 


VIII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  223 

rata  and  laurel  thickets,  the  ancient  groves 
of  totara  and  kauri,  the  ferny  dells  of 
Waitaki !  It  seems  like  growing  mustard 
and  cress  upon  a  yard  of  damp  flannel,  as  I 
used  to  do  in  my  childhood.  However, 
as  I  said  before,  our  tastes  will  recover 
themselves  I  hope.' 

Corindah  once  more.  Again  the  endless 
grey-green  plains — the  sand-hills — the  myall 
— the  mogil — the  familiar,  not  ungraceful, 
but  sparse  and  monotonous  woodland — the 
wire  fences  stretching  for  scores  of  miles  on 
every  side — the  gates  all  of  the  same  pattern 
— the  hundreds  of  thousands  of  merino  sheep, 
each  unit  undistinguishable  from  another 
save  by  the  eye  of  experience — the  blue 
heaven — the  mirage — the  boundary  riders — 
the  men — the  horses — the  collie  dogs — all 
moving  in  unvarying  grooves,  as  if  they  had 
never  done  anything  else  since  the  travellers 
departed,  and  were  incapable  of  change, 
emotion,  or  alteration. 

However,  as  the  buggy  from  the  station 
drove  through  the  well  -  remembered  gate, 
Harold    Atherstone,  with    Bertram  and    Mr. 


224  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

Gateward,  were  there  to  meet  the  home- 
returning  travellers.  The  evident  pleasure 
in  each  face  touched  the  girl's  heart,  and 
she  pressed  the  gnarled  hand  of  the  overseer 
with  considerably  more  cordiality  than  she 
was  in  the  habit  of  putting  into  her  greetings, 
as  she  replied  to  the  general  expression  of 
welcome. 

•  Thought  you'd  followed  my  advice  and 
taken  the  New  Zealand  mail -steamer  for 
England,' said  Mr.  1  )evereu\.  wiili  his  usual 
calmness  of  intonation,  though  a  llush  on  his 
ordinarily  pale  cheek  betrayed  suppressed 
emotion.  '  1  should  have  done  so  in  your 
case  1  know.' 

'  1  daresay  they  have  only  come  home  to 
pack  now,'  said  Harold.  'A  taste  for  iraxcl, 
once  acquired,  is  never  shaken  off — by  woukmi 
at  any  rate.  The  West  Logan  must  look 
like  the  Soudan  after  your  late  exj)eriences.' 

'You  are  all  very  unkind,'  said  Pollie ; 
'that  is,  except  Mr.  ( laicwartl,  who  is  too 
glad  to  see  us  lo  make  rude  sj)eeches.  1  )()n't 
we  enjoy  coming  home  like,  other  people  with 
hearts.'*  We  are  not  going  awa)-  f(;r  years, 
are  we,  UKjther  .'*  ' 


VIII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  225 

'  Not  if  my  wishes  are  consulted,  my 
dearest,'  said  Mrs.  Devereux,  stretching  her 
neck  to  look  over  the  garden  paling.  '  I 
want  rest,  and  time  to  think  my  own  thoughts 
and  enjoy  a  little  quiet  life  again.' 

'  You  have  come  to  the  right  "shop  "  for 
that,  as  I  heard  one  of  the  boundary  riders 
say  to-day,  my  dear  Mrs.  Devereux,'  said 
Bertram.  '  Anything  more  uniform,  not  to 
say  monotonous,  than  our  lives  here  in  your 
absence  cannot  be  imagined.  Nothing  ever 
happens  here,  now  that  the  excitement  of  the 
drought  is  over.' 

'  I  heard  some  news  by  telegram  before  I 
came  over,'  said  Harold,  'which  is  likely  to 
cause  a  stir  in  the  district.  It's  rather  bad  of 
its  sort,  and  may  lead  to  worse  results  even.' 

'  ^liank  God  for  it,  anyhow ! '  said  Ber- 
tram ;  '  anything  is  better  than  the  dead  level 
of  dulness  we  have  lately  been  reduced  to. 
What  is  it  ? ' 

The  other  man  looked  grave.  *  It's  not 
a  matter  to  be  lightly  treated.  Two  bush- 
rangers are  "out."  They  shot  dead  one  of 
the  escort  troopers  from  Denman  Gaol  to 
Berrima,  overpowered  the  others,  and  are 
Q 


2  26  THE  CROOK F. I)  STICK  chap. 

now  at  larp^c  at  no  c^reat  distance  from 
Wannonliah.' 

'  Oh  ! '  said  Mrs.  Dcvcrcux,  turning  pale, 
•  I  am  so  sorry.  Not  tliat  I  feel  frightened  ; 
but  now  tliat  they  have  shed  blood,  and  must 
suffer  if  taken,  they  are  desperate  men,  and 
will  scarcely  be  taken  alive.  Do  you  know 
their  names  ? ' 

'The  younger  man  is  Hilly  Mossthorne  ; 
as  for  the  other,  I  don't  know.  I  le  is  an  old 
offender.  The  police  are,  of  coiu'se,  all  over 
the  district.  Sergeant  1 1  erne  passed  Maroo- 
bil  in  an  old  slouched  hat  and  [)lain  clothes, 
but  one  of  the  men  knew  him  and  told  me. 
Me  will  run  them  down  if  any  one  can. 
Hvery  trooj)er  in  the  North-W'^est  is  out.' 

'  But  what  chance  in  a  country  like;  this 
will  he  have.'*'  said  Bertram.  '  The  outlaws 
are  miles  away  by  this  time-,  and  can  easily 
cross  the  border  into  Queensland.  I'd  lake 
short  odds  they  are  never  seen  again.' 

]\Ir.  Atherstone  smiled.  'lie  has  the 
chance  of  the  sleutli  hound  on  the  trail  of  the 
deer.  'rh(;  police  force  of  this  colony  is  well 
organised.  Mossthorne  is  a  horseman,  a 
bushman,  and  a  d;u'e-de\il  not  easil)-  matched  : 


VIII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  227 

but   there   are   as    good   men    as   he    on   his 
track.' 

'  If  the  brutes  would  only  come  into  the 
open, 'said  Bertram,  with  his  quiet  sneer,  'one 
would  be  saved  the  bother  of  thinking  about 
them.  They  haven't  pluck  enough  for  that, 
I  expect.' 

'  To  do  them  justice,'  replied  Atherstone, 
'  they  don't  lack  the  old  English  virtue  of 
bulldog  courage,  as  any  one  will  find  that 
meets  them  under  fire.  Personally,  I  should 
not  be  grieved  if  they  got  away  to  the  "  Never 
Never  country,"  and  were  not  heard  of  again. 
Mossthorne  worked  for  me  once.  He  was  a 
fine  manly  young  fellow,  and  I  have  always 
regretted  deeply  that  he  got  into  bad  com- 
pany and  worse  ways.  In  the  front  of  a  line 
regiment  or  on  a  quarter-deck,  Billy  would 
have  shown  what  stuff  he  was  made  of,  and 
his  country  might  have  been  proud  of  him.' 

'  I  have  no  sympathy  with  such  ruffians, 
old  or  young,'  said  Devereux.  '  The  sooner 
they  are  hanged  or  shot  the  better,  and  I 
should  like  to  have  the  chance  of  putting  a 
bullet  into  either  of  them.' 

'  I  daresay  I  shall  shoot  as  straight  as  any 


228  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiai-. 

one  else  if  it  comes  to  a  scrimmage,'  said  the 
other ;  '  but  I  can't  help  mourning  over  a 
good  man  spoiled.  That  they  will  not  be 
taken  alive,  we  may  make  tolerably  sure,' 

At  the  commencement  of  the  conversation 
Mrs.  Devereux  had  turned  pale.  The  sad 
memories  of  the  past  were  awakened.  She 
took  the  first  opportunity  of  retiring  with  her 
daughter,  leaving  the  young  men  to  their 
argument. 

'And  what  have  you  done  with  yourself 
all  the  time?'  said  Pollie  to  her  cousin,  as 
they  sat  at  breakfast  next  morning.  '  It 
does  seem  so  hard  to  ha\e  been  shut  up 
here  while  we  were  in  hairy-land — were  we 
not,  mother.'*'  she  said,  appealing  to  Mrs. 
Devereux,  who  sat  in  her  place  with  rather 
an  abstracted  air. 

'  What  were  you  saying,  my  dear  .'^  Oh  ! 
yes,  delightful,  was  it  not  ?  I  was  just 
thinking  that  we  need  not  have  hurried 
back.  Did  you  go  anywhere,  liertram,  or 
sec  any  society  in  our  absence  .'* ' 

'1  went  to  l)(>urkc  for  a  lortniglu  .'^ '  he 
answered,  with   a  smile   in   which    there   was 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION 


more  sarcasm  than  merriment.  '  I  was 
afraid  to  trust  myself  within  the  fascination 
of  real  civilisation,  so  I  declined  Melbourne 
or  Sydney.' 

'  And  what  did  you  think  of  that  desert 
city } '  inquired  Pollie,  with  mock  humility. 
'  Did  Your  Royal  Highness  find  anybody  fit 
to  talk  to  ? ' 

'  It  struck  me  as  a  queer  place,'  he  said. 
'  You  could  not  expect  me  to  have  seen 
anything  like  it  before.  But  it  wasn't  bad  in 
its  way.  The  weather  was  glorious.  The 
men  were  better  than  I  expected.  Rather 
fast,  perhaps.  Their  manners  lacked  repose. 
They  took  care  no  one  else  should  have  any, 
as  they  kept  it  up  all  night  most  of  the  time 
I  was  there.  One  young  fellow  jumped  his 
horse  over  the  hotel  bar  —  a  thing  I  had 
previously  taken  to  be  pure  fiction,  on  the 
American  pattern.' 

'  That's  rather  old-fashioned  bush  pleas- 
antry,' said  Pollie  ;  '  he  must  have  been  very 
young.      How  did  the  horse  like  it  ? ' 

'  I  don't  know,  but  he  did  it  cleverly.  I 
expected  to  see  both  their  necks  broken  and 
the  smash  general ;  but  all  came  right  by  a 


2}o  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

minicle,  and  the  fellow  won  his  bel  -  twenty 
pounds.      I  heard  him  make  it.' 

'  And  was  that  the  only  style  of  society 
you  encountered  ? '  queried  Pollie,  with  a 
disdainful  and  disapproving  air.  '  Vou 
could  have  enjoyed  that  at  Wannonbah.' 

'  Permit  me.  I  did  not  enjoy  it ;  I  only 
observed  it.  Ikit  there  were  really  some  nice 
fellows,  who  had  just  come  over  from 
Queensland — Lord  llarrowsby's  younger 
brother,  and  Thoresby,  a  Suffolk  man, 
whose  cousin  1  was  (quartered  with  once. 
They  had  just  been  investing  in  a  sugar 
[plantation,  and  were  going  to  make  a  fortune 
in  three  years.  One  of  the  local  men  asked 
us  all  out  to  his  i)lace.  1  )rove  four-in-hand, 
too.  We  had  a  famous  week  of  it.  I  never 
e.xpected  to  enjo)-  it  so  much.  Lived  in  a 
really  good  style.' 

'  \\'(jnderful,  when  you  come  to  think  of 
it,'  said  the  girl  sauciK'.  '  that  aii)-  one  should 
have  a  decent  establishment  in  Australia! 
lUit  )r)u'll  make  discoveries  by  degrees.' 

'I'm  afr.iid  )<iu'rc  laughing  at  me,'  he 
said  gravely.  '  1  am  not  of  a  sanguine 
disj,>osition,  I  own.      I  didn't  i-.\pect  a)ty(lnttg 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION 


when  I  came  here.  But  perhaps  I  shall 
have  fewer  mistakes  to  retract  than  if  I  had 
been  imaginative.' 

'  I  am  not  laughing  at  you ;  indeed,  I 
think  you  wonderfully  wise  and  prudent  for 
the  time  you  have  been  out.  By  and  by 
you  will  know  everything  that  we  do  our- 
selves. But  what  always  entertains  me 
about  you  recent  importations  is  the  mild 
air  of  surprise  with  which  you  regard  the 
smallest  evidence  that  the  men  that  pre- 
ceded you,  and  built  up  these  great  cities, 
this  wonderful  country,  were  of  much  the 
same  birth,  breeding,  and  social  status  as 
ourselves.' 

*  But  many  were  not,  surely  ?  That  must 
be  admitted.' 

'  The  majority  were  ;  the  leaders,  certainly, 
in  every  branch  of  civilisation  :  how  else 
would  the  miraculous  progress  have  been 
effected  ?  The  rank  and  file  were  much  like 
other  people — good,  bad,  and  indifferent.' 

Once  more  the  old  life  was  resumed  at 
Corindah.  Once  more  the  succession  of 
easy    tasks    and   simple   pleasures    obtained. 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


The  walks  by  the  river-side — the  rides  and 
drives  —  the  history  readings  —  the  French 
and  ItaHan  lessons — the  peaceful  mornings 
when  tranquil  Nature  seemed  assured  against 
change,  disturbance,  or  decay — the  dreamy 
afternoons — the  long,  quiet  evenings  divided 
between  books,  music,  and  an  occasional 
game  of  whist  for  Mrs.  Devereux's  enter- 
tainment when  Harold  Atherstone  came 
over.  As  the  weeks  glided  on,  Pollie  could 
not  believe  that  she  had  ever  left  Corindah, 
that  the  voyages,  the  travel,  the  strange 
people  and  incidents  were  unrealities,  fash- 
ioned of  'such  stuff  as  dreams  are  made  on.' 

She  had  resuincd  her  (juasi- friendly 
relations  with  Derlrain  Dexereux,  who 
apparently  Iiad  not  noticed  the  alteration 
of  her  feelings  towards  him.  With  his 
accustomed  patience  he  had  accepted  the 
position,  and  merely  set  himself  to  overcome 
her  doubts  and  maiiK:nly  si:ruples.  In  this 
aU<inpt  his  knowledge  ol  the  subject  assured 
liim  th.il  he  would  ulliinalely  succeed. 

liarcjld  Atherstone  certainly  came  pretl)' 
fre(|uently.  Ibr  was  not  a  man  lo  be  lightly 
regarded  as  a  ri\  al.      '  \\  hat  a  slir  he  would 


viir  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  233 

have  made  in  some  places  that  I  have  known  ! ' 
thought  Devereux  to  himself.  '  That  grand 
seigneur  air  of  his,  the  height,  the  stalwart 
frame,  his  Indian-chief  sort  of  immobility, 
joined  to  his  consummate  skill  in  all 
accomplishments  of  an  athletic  nature. 
Here,'  he  said  to  himself,  with  a  sardonic 
smile,  '  he  is  thrown  away.  The  type  is 
more  common  than  with  us,  and  he  has  the 
fatal  drawback,  in  the  eyes  of  our  prima 
do7ina,  of  too  early,  too  familiar,  too  brotherly 
an  intimacy.  She  knows  him  like  a  book. 
With  the  perverse  instinct  of  her  sex,  she 
despises  the  well-read,  dog's-eared  volume, 
full  of  high  thought  and  purpose,  and  longs 
for  a  newer  work  —  inferior,  possibly,  as  it 
may  be,  but  with  uncut  pages.  I  shall  win 
this  game,  I  foresee,  as  I  win  the  odd  trick 
at  our  little  whist  tournaments — by  superior 
science,  even  against  better  cards.  Well, 
what  then  ?  As  the  husband  of  the 
handsomest  woman  of  her  year,  with 
Corindah  for  her  ultimate  dowry,  and  a  hand- 
some allowance,  I  suppose  one  could  live  in 
London.  Ah !  would  it  not  be  life  again  ? 
Not  this  vegetable  existence,  which  one  can 


234  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chai'. 


Stand  for  a  year  or  two,  but  dull,  dismal, 
a  fairc pcu)\  after  a  while.' 

Had  the  intensity  of  the  feeling  which 
Hertrani  Devereux  had  reached  reacted  upon 
the  girl's  sensitive  organisation  ?  No  altera- 
tion of  manner,  or  one  so  trilling  that  it 
could  hardly  be  perceived,  had  taken  place. 
Still,  like  the  swimmer  on  the  smoothly 
gliding  tide  which  leads  to  the  whirlpool 
or  the  rapids,  she  felt  conscious  of  a  hidden 
force,  which  became  daily  more  dillicult  to 
analyse  or  resist. 

Had  any  one  told  her,  upon  the  arrival 
of  Bertram  Devereux  at  Corindah,  that  her 
heart  would  eventually  be  forced  to  surrender 
at  his  summons,  the  proud  beauty  would 
have  laughed  the  prophecy  to  scorn.  But 
now,  when  with  pensive  brow  and  thoughtful 
air  she  searched  its  recesses,  and  examined 
the  feelings  which  held  [possession  of  her 
waking  thoughts,  she  could  not  deny  that 
the  image  of  the  stranger  had  no  ri\al  to 
fear,  no  refusal  to  dread,  in  llu;  fiteful  hour 
which  would  decide  two  destinies. 

But  in  the  intervals  of  distrust  which 
disturbed  her  niind — and  there  were  many — 


VIII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  235 

one  question  invariably  asserted  prominence, 
one  dark  spirit  of  doubt  refused  to  be  laid. 
She  knew  that  Bertram  Devereux  had  lived 
much  in  society  in  early  life ;  had  been  of 
the  haute  volde  of  the  great  world  both  in 
England  and  abroad.  Was  it  possible  that 
he  should  have  been  a  recognised  figure  in 
those  luxurious,  exclusive  circles  without 
having  given  his  heart  to  some  one  of 
the  fascinating  personages  which  there 
abounded  ? 

Were  it  so,  would  it  be  possible  that  he 
had  pledged  himself,  unalterably,  irrevocably, 
to  return  from  Australia  and  fulfil  his  promise 
within  a  certain  time  ?  Englishmen  often 
did  this,  and  when  time  had  altered  their 
ideas,  or  loosened  the  bonds  which  in  good 
faith  should  have  remained  inflexible,  married 
some  girl  that  took  their  fancy  in  the  colonies, 
and  quietly  settled  down  for  life  in  the  land 
of  their  adoption.  But  such  a  lover  should 
not  be  hers,  she  told  herself  He  who  for 
gold  or  light  love  forfeited  his  pledged  word 
was  a  forsworn  coward.  She  could  not  for 
an  instant  brook  the  idea  of  being  mentally 
compared    with    the    former   occupant   of    a 


236  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

heart  every  pulse  of  which  should  beat  for 
her  and  her  alone.  She  knew  that  every 
thought,  every  aspiration,  every  fibre  of  her 
beinof  would  be  Ijlended  in  the  existence  of 
iier  Kncr.  Proud,  sensitive,  unconsciously 
exacting,  even  jealous,  the  fierce  blood  she 
inherited  from  Brian  Devereux  boiled  up 
as  she  thought  of  the  indignity,  the  degrada- 
tion of  sharing  in  such  a  sense  the  affections 
of  any  living  man.  She  did  not  rise  from 
her  long  musing  fit  on  that  still,  dreamy, 
silent  eve  without  telling  herself,  tliat  in  the 
probable  case  of  Bertram  Devereux  declaring 
himself,  he  should  satisfy  her  fully  upon  this 
point,  or  hand  of  hers  should  never  clasp  his 
before  the  altar. 

While  the  great  hope  which  arises  in 
every  human  breast  was  perfecting  itsell  - 
that  llower  which  blooms  so  fair,  or  pales  and 
fades  untimely,  was  daily  rip{!ning,  tending  to- 
wards fragrance  and  fruition — the  little  world 
f)f  West  Logan  was  apparently  stationary. 
'I'hc  vast  green  prairies  were  commencing  to 
grow  yellow  before  the  warm  brce/cs  of  the; 
early  summer;  the  days  were  Iciiglhcning  ; 
the  dark-l)lu(:  gold-Ire  Ltcd  nights  were  shorter; 


VIII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  237 

the  dawn  followed  midnight  with  lesser 
interval.  All  things  appeared  calm  and 
changeless  as  a  summer  sea.  The  stormy 
ways  of  evil  deeds,  crime,  and  death  seemed 
as  improbable  as  messages  from  another 
planet. 

Strangers  came  and  went,  but  they  were 
principally  camp-followers  of  the  great  armies 
of  sheep  which  from  time  to  time,  being 
mobilised  for  various  reasons,  marched  from 
one  end  of  the  territory  to  the  other,  or  to 
the  borders  of  other  colonies.  But  one 
evening  a  shabbily-dressed  man,  on  a  rough- 
looking  horse,  rode  into  the  stable-yard, 
where  he  encountered  Mr.  Gateward,  whom 
he  en2faQ;ed  in  serious  conversation. 

'  Who  in  the  world  can  that  be  ? '  asked 
Bertram  irritably,  from  his  seat  in  the 
verandah.  A  book  of  Rossetti's  poems  was 
before  him.  He  had  been  reading  aloud  to 
his  cousin.  Her  work  lay  unheeded  on  the 
Pembroke  table.  '  Another  of  those  con- 
founded sheep  ''  reporters  "  !  I  wish  they 
would  stay  at  home  for  a  time.  I  am  sure 
Gateward  and  I  are  sick  of  the  very  sight 
of  travelling  sheep.' 


238  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

•Wait  till  I  take  a  peep  at  him.'  said  the 
<^irl.  lie  docs  not  look  altogether  like  a 
sheep  man.' 

Pollie  walked  to  the  end  of  the  verandah, 
and  peeping  over  the  lemon  hedge  which 
bounded  the  garden,  examined  the  stranger 
with  a  searching  and  practised  eye. 

'  llis  bit  and  stirrups  are  rusty.  Me  has 
an  old  .slouched  felt  hat,  and  only  one  spur, 
lie  stoops  as  h(!  sits  in  his  saddle.  Mr. 
Gateward  is  looking  very  serious.  What  do 
you  make  of  all  that  V  she  said  archly,  as  she 
came  back  to  her  companion. 

Working  overseer- — tliirty  or  forty 
thou.sand  sheep  —  to  be  at  our  boundary 
gate  to-night.  Wants  to  go  the  Inner  track, 
where  Gateward  is  saving  the  grass.  No 
wond(*r  he  looks  serious.' 

'  It  would  not  be  a  bad  guess  if  matters 
ran  in  their  ordinary  groove ;  Ijut  1  see 
signs  of  a  change,  with  danger  signals  ahead. 
That  fpiiet-looking  man  is  Miles  I  Icnic,  one 
of  the  smartest  sergeants  in  the  police  f(jrce. 
Me  has  been  on  the  track  of  ilic  two  bush- 
rangers. I  saw  him  two  or  three  years  ago, 
and    I    don't   forget    j)eople  that   interest  me. 


VIII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  239 

He  is  here  to  get  information,  or  to  give 
some  that  may  be  important.' 

'  That  man  a  sergeant  of  police!'  exclaimed 
Bertram,  surprised  out  of  his  usual  equanimity. 
'  You  must  surely  be  mistaken,  or  he  is  a 
consummate  artist  in  disguise.' 

'It  is  the  man  himself,'  persisted  she. 
'We  Australians  have  sharp  eyes  —  savage 
attributes,  you  know.  He  has  captured  many 
a  cattle-stealer,  they  say,  in  that  unassuming 
bush  attire.  There  is  a  good  deal  of  talent 
among  our  New  South  Wales  troopers. 
There  was  Senior-Constable  Ross,  who  used 
to  be  told  off  to  catch  sly  grog-sellers.  His 
get-up  was  wonderful.  Once,  Harold  told 
me,  he  went  as  one  of  a  pair  of  blackfellows, 
and  quite  outdid  the  real  aboriginal,  secur- 
ing a  conviction  too.  Go  down  and  see  the 
sergeant.      I  am  uneasy  about  his  errand,' 


CIIAPTl'IR    IX 

Before  the  young  man  made  his  way  into 
the  stable-yard,  PolHe  meanwhile  retreating 
to  her  mother's  room,  the  strange  horseman 
had  hung  up  his  steed  to  a  post  and  followed 
Mr.  Gateward  to  the  barracks,  in  the  sitting- 
room  of  which  unpretending  but  useful  ad- 
junct to  the  mansion  proper  Mr.  Devereux 
found  them  in  earnest  conclave.  They 
stopped  speaking  when  hv.  entered.  The 
stranger  looked  searchingly  at  the  young 
luiglishman.  who  decided,  after  encounter- 
ing the  keen  grey  eye  and  marking  the 
resolute  face  and  wiry,  athletic  frame,  that 
no  ordinary  man  was  before  him. 

Gateward,  alter  looking  round  carefully, 
l)Cgan  in  a  lone  of  solemnity  and  mysterious 
import.  '  Mr.  Devereux,  this  is  Sergeant 
Ilerne,    stati<jned    at    \\'ar]»an,    but    now    on 


CHAP.  IX  THE  CROOKED  STICK  241 

duty  out  of  uniform,  for  reasons  as  you'll 
understand.  He's  on  the  track  of  the  men 
we've  heard  on.'  The  stranger  saluted  in 
military  style,  and  Bertram  instinctively  re- 
turned the  courtesy  in  like  form.  '  And  bad 
news  he've  heard,  I'm  afraid,'  continued  Mr. 
Gateward. 

'The  sergeant  will  tell  us  himself,'  inter- 
posed Bertram.  '  These  bushrangers  are  in 
the  neighbourhood  'i     We  heard  that  before.' 

'  It's  a  trifle  worse  than  that,  sir,'  said  the 
disguised  man-at-arms,  unbuckling  a  leather 
belt  and  placing  a  navy  revolver,  previously 
concealed  by  his  coat,  upon  the  table.  '  Unless 
my  information  is  false — and  I  have  every 
reason  to  think  otherwise — the  pair  of  them, 
the  Doctor  and  Billy  Mossthorne,  will  be  here 
to-night.' 

'  Here  !  good  God  ! '  said  Bertram.  '  Why 
the  deuce  should  they  come  here  '^.  Fancy 
having  to  fight  the  scoundrels  with  ladies  in 
the  house !  Can't  we  meet  them  and  have 
it  out  on  the  road  .^ ' 

'  It's  impossible  to  say  which  way  they'll 
come  in,'  said  the  sergeant  thoughtfully. 
'  Fellows   like   them   don't   travel    on    roads. 

R 


242  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

They  know  every  inch  of  the  bush  iwnw  here 
to  the  Lachlan,  and  can  go  as  straight  as  a 
bhickfellow  by  night  as  \\(.;11  as  by  day. 
They're  hid  in  the  Warrambong  scrubs  now, 
it's  a  good  way  off,  and  my  men  have  run 
them  close.  But  by  hard  riding  they'll  get 
here  by  midnight,  expecting  every  one  in  the 
place  to  be  sound  asleep.' 

'  I^ut  what  do  they  w  ant  here  ?  ' 

'It's  hard  to  know  what  the  Doctor 
wants.  He's  one  of  the  biggest  scoundrels 
unhanged.  But  what  Bill  IMossthorne  is  after 
is  a  couple  of  your  best  horses,  and  as  much 
clothes  and  grub  as'll  see  them  across  the 
Queensland  border,  lie  was  hurl  in  the 
scuffle,  and  walking  in  his  leg-irons  for  forty- 
eight  hours  gave  him  a  terrible  shaking. 
The  Doctor  had  to  carry  him  on  his  back 
[jart  of  the  last  day.  I  was  told.' 

'Then  we  shan't  see  them  imtil  they  turn 
up  here  ? ' 

'  Not  if  I'm  laid  on  properly,'  said  the 
hunter  of  men.  '  Between  twelve  and  one 
o'clock  to-night,  if  we've  luck,  they'll  drop 
into  as  pretty  a  trap  as  ever  they  were  in  in 
their  lives.' 


IX  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  243 

'  The  Doctor,  as  they  call  that  scoundrel 
— haven't  I  heard  something  about  him  be- 
fore?' said  Bertram  musingly.  'It  must 
have  been  long  ago,  but  I  seem  to  have  an 
indistinct  memory  concerning  him.' 

The  two  others  looked  meaningly  at 
each  other.     Then  Mr.  Gateward  spoke. 

'  Perhaps  it  will  be  as  well  to  keep  it  from 
the  missis,  sir.  It  might  shake  her  a  deal, 
thinkin'  on  it.  But  the  Doctor's  the  man 
that  shot  her  husband  thirteen  years  ago 
this  very  month.  The  Captain  hit  him  hard 
the  same  time,  and  he's  been  heard  to  say 
he'll  leave  his  mark  on  Corindah  yet.' 

Bertram  Devereux  set  his  teeth,  and  a 
smile,  such  as  men  wear  in  the  moment 
of  hard  and  bitter  resolve,  passed  slowly 
over  his  face,  while  his  eyes  lightened  and 
gleamed,  as  if  he  saw  his  dearest  hope 
realised. 

'  By  God  !  you  don't  tell  me  so  ? '  he  said, 
in  so  changed  a  voice  that  both  of  the  men 
shifted  position  and  gazed  upon  him  as  he 
spoke.  *  What  an  astonishing  coincidence  ! 
I  wouldn't  have  missed  this  night  for  a 
fortune.     To  think,  too,  that  I  was  so  nearly 


244  lilE  CROOKED  STICK'  chap. 

ulT  to  that  back  station  this  mornini;,  Gate- 
ward,  wasn't  I  ?  And  now,  sero^eanl,  you 
arc  our  commanding  officer.  You  have  the 
caj'ic  du  pays.  What  is  the  order  of  the 
day,  or  rather  of  the  night  ? ' 

The  sergeant  sat  himself  composedly 
down  on  the  substantial  table  which  took  up 
the  centre  of  the  apartment,  and  in  a  business- 
like tone  of  calculation  and  arranuement  un- 
folded  his  plan  of  action. 

'  You  see,  I  had  only  one  trooper  with 
me,'  he  said.  '  The  rest  are  round  Warram- 
bong  Mountains.  1  sent  him  with  a  note  to 
Maroobil.  Mr.  Atherstone  will  be  here  to- 
night. That  will  be  [jlenty.  We  don't 
want  a  mob  round  the  place.  Some  one 
might  show  out  too  soon,  and  then  they 
wouldn't  come.  If  they're  let  alone,  and 
come  in  as  1  say,  we'll  get  them  "  to  rights." 
There'll  be  some  close  shooting,  but  they 
can't  get  away  if  we've  a  rag  of  luck.' 

'Which  wa)-  will  they  atlempl  to  cMilcr.-*' 
said  Hcriram,  liL;liling  a  cigarette.  '  1  lere 
or  at  the  house  :  ' 

'  I'Vom  what  I  was  told,'  saiil  the  sergeant, 
with  an  air  of  satisfaction,  '  they  will  come  to 


IX  OR  rOLLIE'S  PROBATION  245 

the  barracks,  to  this  very  room,  and  a  better 
line — for  us — they  couldn't  have  taken. 
They  know  this  place  and  all  the  ins  and 
outs  of  the  premises  well.  Their  dart  is  to 
knock  up  the  storekeeper,  Mr.  Newman, 
and  make  him  hand  over  whatever  they 
want  —  or  will  —  or  the  cash  -  box.  They 
know  the  back  entrance  from  here  to  the 
house.' 

'Which  they'll  never  set  foot  in,'  said 
Bertram.  '  If  we  don't  give  a  good  account 
of  them  here,  prepared  as  we  shall  be  when 
they  turn  up,  we  deserve  never  to  pull 
trigger  again.' 

'  I've  had  a  few  close  brushes  with  men 
of  their  sort,'  said  Heme,  with  a  grim  smile 
of  satisfaction,  '  but  I  don't  know  that  ever 
I  saw  a  neater  thing  than  what  we're  work- 
inof  now.  We've  Qrot  'em  on  toast.  You 
see,  sir,  what  a  beautiful  room  this  is  ? ' 

Devereux  looked  round  the  unadorned 
apartment  with  a  slight  expression  of  in- 
quiry. 

'  I  mean  to  be  "  stuck  up  in  "  of  course. 
Don't  know  that  I  ever  saw  the  equal  of  it. 
They  begin  in  the  verandah.     We're  safe  to 


24^5  THE  CROOKED  STICK  cii.\r. 

hear  their  step  or  voices.  It's  all  dark,  of 
course.  They  light  a  match  to  rouse  uj) 
Mr.  Newman.  They  know  that's  his  room 
on  the  rifjht-hand  side  there.  You  and  I 
stand  just  inside  this  bed-room,  Constable 
Gray  and  Mr.  Atherstone  about  there. 
The  moment  they  light  their  match,  we  call 
on  them  to  surrender  in  the  Queen's  name. 
Mr.  Gateward,  who's  behind  the  bale  of 
sheepskins,  lights  a  lantern  that  stands  all 
ready,  so  as  we  can  see  what  we're  about, 
and  in  a  brace  of  shakes  the  thing's 
over.' 

'  It's  quite  certain  there's  no  more  than 
two  of  them,  sergeant?'  said  Mr.  Gateward. 
'  You're  sure  of  that,  I  reckon.  Not  that  we 
mind  much,  but  it  might  make  a  difference.' 

'  There  might  be  a  third  man.  I  heard 
that  "Johnny  the  Pacer"  was  seen  at 
W'arramijong  the  other  day.  Hut  he's  more 
in  the  horse-duffing  line  than  where  there's 
shooting  going  on.' 

'However,  you  never  knou  when  these 
felhnvs  will  turn  out.  There's  been  a  warrant 
out  for  him  these  two  years.' 

*  We  shall  be  all  the  better  matched,'  .said 


IX  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  247 

Bertram.  '  The  more  the  merrier,  as  long 
as  we're  only  man  to  man.  I  wonder  Ather- 
stone  isn't  over  yet.  I  suppose  the  ladies 
had  better  not  know  anything  about  the 
visitors  we  expect.' 

'  Begging  your  pardon,  sir,'  said  Gate- 
ward,  with  a  look  of  resolve  upon  his  face. 
'  It  will  be  best  to  put  them  on  their  guard. 
It  would  give  them  a  shock  if  they  woke  up 
and  heard  the  shooting.  They're  neither  of 
them  ladies  as  will  scream  and  faint  or  act 
with  any  foolishness.' 

'  I  think  Gateward  is  right,'  said  the 
sergeant  gravely.  '  If  they're  prepared,  de- 
pend upon  it  they'll  be  brave  and  steady  ; 
ladies  mostly  are  in  the  real  push  of  danger. 
And  Mrs.  Devereux  hasn't  lived  here  all 
these  years  without  knowing  about  bush- 
rangers, more's  the  pity.' 

'  Had  reason  to  know  'em  too  well,'  said 
the  overseer,  shaking  his  head.  '  You  won't 
frighten  Miss  Pollie,  sir,  and  the  missus,  for, 
as  quiet  as  she  looks,  she  isn't  to  say  timor- 
some.' 

'  I  hear  horses  now,'  said  the  young  man. 
'  Atherstone    and    your   trooper,    I    suppose. 


248  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

If  \()U  tliiiik  it's  hc'sl    for  ihi:  hidit'S  to  know. 
\vc  will  Ifll  thciii.' 

'  And  I'll  i;o  with  Gateward  and  get  some- 
thing to  cat,'  said  the  sergeant.  '  I've  had 
ci  long  ride,  and  nothing's  passed  my  lij)s 
since  sunrise.  We  shall  all  want  something 
before  the  night's  over.' 

Harold  Atherstonc  rode  into  the  stable- 
yard,  followed  by  a  slight,  wiry-looking  young 
fellow  in  the  uniform  of  the  mounted  police. 
I  le  was  mounted  upon  an  upstanding,  well- 
bred  bay,  and  led  a  saddled  roan,  the  points 
and  condition  of  which  denoted  blood,  good 
keep,  and  regular  stabling.  » 

'  N'ou'll  fmd  spare  stalls  or  boxes  there, 
constable,'  said  Bertram.  '  Charley,  the 
crroom,  is  somewhere  about.  He'll  cfive 
you  a  hand  to  loed  down  your  horses.' 

'This  is  a  ([uccr  business,  Atherstonc,' 
said  he,  when  the  lroo])(r  had  dei)arU'd  with 
th(;  horses.  '  We  shall  ha\c  shar[)  shooting 
if  these  fellows  turn  up.  and  1  su|>])Ose  there's 
no  doubt  al)OUt  it.' 

'  It  will  be  the  lirst  lime  I  ever  knew 
Miles    Heme    wrou'*;,'    said    Atherstonc.    'if 


IX  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  249 

they're  not  here  at  the  hour  he  says.  I  wish 
to  Heaven  they  had  picked  Maroobil  for  their 
next  bit  of  devilry.  However,  it  can't  be 
helped.  It's  lucky  we  were  both  in  the  way, 
and  doubly  fortunate  that  we've  had  timely 
warning.' 

'By  Jove!  yes,'  said  the  other,  'and  I 
was  near  as  could  be  going  away  back  this 
morninsf.  How  savaofe  I  should  have  been ! 
Come  into  my  room  and  dress.  I  can  tell 
you  all  about  Heme's  arrangements.  What 
a  smart  fellow  he  is,  and  as  cool  as  a 
cucumber ! ' 

'  If  you'd  known  all  the  close  things  I've 
seen  him  in,  and  the  arrests  he's  made,  you'd 
say  so,'  replied  the  other.  '  He's  the  show 
trooper  of  the  North-West.  They  always 
detail  him  when  there's  anything  specially 
dangerous  to  be  done.  He'll  be  promoted 
this  time  if  he  bags  these  fellows,  and  I  hope 
to  Heaven  he  may.' 

When  the  two  young  men  made  their 
appearance  in  the  dining-room,  there  was 
but  little  need  for  them  to  speak. 

'  I  know  there  is  something  dreadful  the 


250  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

matter,'  said  Pollic.  'by  Harold's  grave  face. 
I  suspected  Sergeant  Hcrnc  didn't  iiini  up 
here  for  nothing.  That  was  a  trooper  and 
two  police  horses  that  came  with  you,  Harold, 
was  it  not?  Better  tell  us  at  once.  Mother 
is  growing  pale  with  anxiety.' 

'  Do  not  be  afraid  for  us,'  said  the  widow, 
with  a  sad  smile.  '  I  have  borne  too  much 
sorrow  to  have  room  ior  iear.' 

'  The  whole  mighty  matter,'  said  Harold, 
thinking  that  he  could  best  describe  the 
affair  in  the  familiar  terms  which  would 
perhaps  divest  the  intelligence  of  sudden 
terror,  'is  that  Heme  has  got  news  of  these 
bushranger  fellows.  Thinks  they  might 
possibly  pay  Corindah  a  visit  to-night.' 

'Is  that  all.'*'  e.xclaimed  Pollie,  her  head 
raised,  her  face  aglow  with  excitement,  while 
her  large  l^right  eyes  sparkled  with  an  ex- 
pression much  more  akin  to  pleasurable  e.x- 
pectation  than  fear.  '  Why.  1  lliought  some 
one  was  dead — that  some  terribk*,  irrevocable 
accident  had  happened.  And  what  time  will 
they  arrive?  I  suppose  they  won't  send  in 
their  cards  ? ' 

'  My  darling,  do   not   talk   so   light!)-,"  said 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  251 


her  mother,  whose  set,  grave  expression 
showed  in  how  different  a  hght  she  regarded 
the  news.  'These  men  have  blood  upon 
their  hands.  More  will  be  shed  yet,  I  fear, 
and  whose  it  may  be  we  know  not.' 

'  We  must  not  be  too  serious  over  it  either, 
Mrs.  Devereux,'  said  Atherstone.  'With 
the  preparations  we  have  been  able  to  make 
and  a  superior  force  well  armed,  the  only 
fear  in  Heme's  mind,  I  suspect,  is  that  one 
of  their  telegraphs  may  get  wind  of  our  plan, 
and  warn  them  away.  About  midnight  is 
the  time  they  were  likely  to  be  about,  if  his 
scouts  spoke  truly.' 

'  Why,  it  will  be  something  like  the  mid- 
night attack  in  Wild  Sports  of  the  TVest,' 
said  Pollie,  '  that  I  used  to  devour  when  I 
was  a  tiny  girl.  Don't  you  remember,  Harold, 
when  the  daughter  of  the  house  comes  in  with 
an  apron  full  of  cartridges  ?  Oh  !  I  shall  be 
so  disappointed  if  they  don't  come  after  all' 

The  young  men  felt  much  inclined  to  laugh 
at  the  genuine  desire  for  fight,  the  keen  en- 
joyment of  a  probable  mcldc,  which  Pollie 
had  evidently  inherited  with  her  Milesian 
blood.     But  one  look  at  the  white  face  and 


252  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

tlrawn  lips  of  Mrs.  Dcvcreiix  checked  ihcin. 
'  I'lic  names,'  she  said,  'have  you  heard  the 
names  ? ' 

'  One  of  them  is  called '  said  Rertram, 

anxious  to  exhibit  his  knowledge  of  the  affair. 

'Called  Mossthorne— William Mossthorne,' 
interposed  Harold,  with  a  meaning  look  at 
Devereux.  'The  other  is  a  stranger.  They 
are  not  sure  whether  he  is  the  man  they  fancy 
or  not.  We  shall  know  if  he  comes  one  way 
or  the  other.' 

Mrs.  Devereux  looked  relieved.  Her 
face  had  a  far-off,  dreamy  expression,  as  if 
she  were  recalling  the  old  days  of  sudden 
misery,  of  woe  imutterahle,  of  hopeless  agony, 
from  which  she  had  been  so  long  recovering. 
Ihit  for  the  bright-eyed  girl,  that  now  with 
eager  face  and  fearless  brow  brought  back 
her  father's  very  face  to  her,  she  told  herself 
that  she  never  would  have  cared  to  live. 
And  now,  aflcr  all  these  years,  ihc  old 
accursed  work  was  to  recommence,  with, 
perhaps,  loss  of  valuable  lile.  with  enmity 
and  bloodshed  certainly.  At  tlu:ir  \'ery  gates 
loo  ;  IxMieath  their  hitherto  inviolate  roof-tree. 
When  was  it  all  to  end.'* 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  253 


However,  she  felt  it  incumbent  on  her  as 
the  chatelaine  to  put  a  brave  face  ujDon  the 
matter.  There  was  not  the  slightest  chance 
of  victory  on  the  part  of  the  outlaws,  out- 
numbered and  outmatched  as  they  would  be. 
She  therefore  exerted  herself  during  the 
remainder  of  the  meal  to  appear  resolute  and 
steadfast.  She  even  gave  advice  which  her 
long  experience  of  colonial  manners  and 
customs  enabled  her  to  offer. 

'  Bertram,  above  all  things,  you  mustn't 
be  rash,'  she  said.  '  Remember  that  these 
are  not  men  to  hold  cheaply.  They  are 
cunning  and  artful,  besides  being  brave  with 
the  desperation  of  despair.  Don't  think 
because  vou  have  been  a  soldier,  that  these 
bush  brigands  are  to  be  despised.  My  poor 
husband  paid  dearly  for  that  mistake.' 

The  young  man  looked  up  cheerfully. 
'  My  dear  aunt,'  he  said,  '  I  don't  despise  our 
friends  the  bush  robbers,  or  whatever  they 
call  them.  I  think  them  very  ugly  customers. 
Some  of  the  shearers  we  had  the  row  with 
last  year  would  be  truly  formidable  with 
arms  in  their  hands.  But  I  am  a  consistent 
fatalist    in    these    matters.     One    man    gets 


254  THE  CROOKED  STICK  .hai. 

shot  ill  such  an  affray  ;  around  another  the 
bullets  rain  harmless.  If  I  am  fated  to  drop, 
I  shall  do  so,  and  not  otherwise.' 

'  And  what  are  wc  to  do  all  the  time  ?  ' 
inquired  Pollie,  with  an  air  of  disapproval. 
'Go  to  bed  and  sleep?  Just  as  if  any  one 
could,  with  a  balllc  comini;-  off  next  door.  1 
suppose  we  must  stay  quiet  till  it  is  all  over  .'* 
What  a  dreadful  thing  it  is  to  be  a  woman ! ' 

'  Very  likely  there  won't  be  any  engage- 
ment at  all  ;  it  may  not  come  off,'  said 
Harold.  'So  I  would  not  advise  you  to  lie 
awak(!  on  the  chance  of  it.  You  may  lose 
your  rest  for  nothing.  In  fact,  the  chances 
are  si.\  to  f<jur — firstly,  ihal  thc\ '11  surrender 
directly  they  see  us  prepared  to  receive  them  ; 
secondly,  that  they  won't  come  into  the 
barracks  at  all,  They  may  turn  back,  like 
dingoes  suspecting  a  trap.' 

'  Pray  Heaven  it  may  be  so ! '  said  Mrs. 
Devereux.  '  I  am  not  unwilling  to  take  my 
share  of  the  risk  and  loss  for  the  country's 
good.  liut  oh  !  if  it  shoukl  turn  out  to  be  a 
f.ilse  alarm,  how  thankful  I  should  be!' 

The  evening  j)assed  off  without  nuu  h  to 
distinguish  it  Irom  other  evenings,  momentous 


IX  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  255 

as  was  the  contingent  finale.  Mrs.  Devereux 
was  absent  and  preoccupied.  Pollie  was 
alternately  in  high  spirits  or  depressed  and 
silent.  Atherstone  and  Bertram  talked  in  a 
matter-of-fact  sort  of  way  about  things  in 
general,  but  made  no  further  allusion  to  the 
subject  which  engrossed  their  thoughts. 

At  ten  o'clock  the  ladies  retired,  rather  to 
the  relief  of  the  young  men.  Mrs.  Devereux 
did  not  omit,  however,  to  again  urge 
upon  Bertram  the  necessity  of  caution  and 
prudence. 

'  I  shall  not  risk  my  precious  person  un- 
wisely,' he  said,  a  little  impatiently  ;  '  but  why 
do  you  not  warn  Atherstone  here  in  the  same 
maternal  manner  ?  I  know  you  regard  him 
as  an  old  and  valued  friend.  Is  he  so  much 
more  experienced  than  I — who  have  done  a 
little  soldiering,  you  will  recollect — or  is  my 
life  more  precious  than  his  in  your  eyes  ? ' 

'  Harold  knows  very  well,'  said  the  widow 
simply,  'how  I  feel  towards  him.  But  he 
can  take  care  of  himself  among  these  people, 
whereas  you,  my  dear  Bertram,  are  at  a  dis- 
advantage. I  do  you  no  injustice  when  I 
compare  you  with  my  darling  husband,  who 


256  THE  CROOKED  STICK  cuai-. 

lost  Ilis  life,  as  you  may  do  to-night,  from 
contempt  of  his  adversary  and  want  of  proper 
caution.' 

'  Harold,  you  are  to  take  care  of  yourself, 
and  Bertram  too.  Do  you  hear  ? '  called  out 
Pollie,  who  was  in  the  passage.  '  Vou  are  to 
tell  him  what  to  do,  for  of  course,  beinc 
newly  arrived,  he  will  know  nothing.  Vou 
mustn't  be  angry,  Bertram.  All  you  Jacka- 
roos  (as  the  Oueenslanders  call  you)  are  the 
same ;  you  leave  cover  and  get  shot  down 
like  an  owl  in  the  daylight,  for  want  of  the 
commonest  woodcraft.  So  don't  be  obstinate, 
or  1  shall  be  obliged  to  come  down  and  stand 
alongside  of  you.  Good-night!  Good-night! 
That  is  one  apiece." 

When  the  young  men  entered  the  room  at 
the  barracks,  they  found  the  sergeant  antl 
.Mr.  (iateward  sitting  over  the  fire  smokinof. 
The  young  constable  was  on  guard  outside, 
in  case  the  attack  might  come  off  earlier  than 
was  anticipated. 

The  sergeant,  though  in  an  altitude  of 
luxurious  contentment,  was  in  full  uniform, 
and  fully  prepared  for  sudd(.:n  action.  IJy 
his  side  stood  a  Winchester  rille  in  excellent 


IX  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  257 

order,  while  within  reach  of  his  arm  was  a 
large- sized  navy  revolver.  Mr.  Gate  ward 
had  girded  on  one  of  the  same  pattern. 

'  You're  all  ready,  gentlemen,  I  suppose } ' 
said  the  officer.  '  Both  with  revolvers,  I  see. 
They're  pretty  tools,  but  I  prefer  my  rifle  for 
close  range.  In  an  hour  more  we  must  put 
out  the  lights  ;  so  you'd  better  light  up,  and 
make  the  most  of  our  smoking  time.' 

They  did  so,  and  for  another  hour  the  four 
men  sat  round  the  fire  smoking  placidly,  occa- 
sionally exchanging  remarks,  while  moment 
by  moment  the  hour  of  mystery  and  doom 
grew  closer.  In  spite  of  the  high  degree  of 
courage  and  coolness  which  characterised 
every  individual  who  sat  in  that  room,  a 
certain  amount  of  anxious  expectation  could 
not  be  avoided. 

There  was  no  doubt  that  there  would  be 
shootinof.  One  or  two  men  would  '  lose  the 
number  of  their  mess  ' — the  phrase  by  which 
among  Englishmen  the  loss  of  life  is  gener- 
ally indicated — and  who  would  it  be  ?  That 
was  the  question.  It  was  not  in  human 
nature  to  avoid  the  speculation  as  to  whether 

the  evil-doers  would  be  laid  low,  or  whether, 

s 


258  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

on  the  contrary,  one  of  themselves,  now  so 
instinct  witli  hfc  and  vitahty,  would  not  he 
stretched  lifeless  upon  the  unpitying  earth. 

'  Half- past  eleven,  gentlemen,'  said  the 
sergeant,  looking  at  his  watch.  '  We  must 
take  our  places,  and  neither  move  nor  speak 
until  the  time  comes,  Mr.  Newman,  you 
had  better  go  to  bed  ;  we  will  take  care  to 
have  a  word  with  them  before  they  rouse  you 
up.  Mr.  Atherstone,  will  you  please  to  take 
that  corner?  Mr.  Devereux,  you'll  stand 
here  hy  me.  That  will  q-ive  us  the  chance 
of  first  shot,  if  you  care  for  ii.  Mr.  Gateward, 
you'll  plant  behind  that  bale  in  the  corner — 
out  of  harm's  way.  All  you've  got  to  think 
of  is  to  light  the  fat-lamp  we  leave  on  the 
top  of  the  wool-pack,  and  duck  down  again. 
They  can't  hurt  you.  Constable  Gray  will 
stoj)  outside.  As  soon  as  lie  hears  horses 
coming  across  the  plain,  he's  to  come  in  here 
and  let  us  know.  He's  a  smart  young  native, 
isn't  he,  Mr.  Atherstone.^  He  can  track  like 
a  blackfellow,  hc^'s  a  pretty  shot,  .mtl  at 
riding  and  bush  work  he's  a  match  for  liilly 
Mossthornc!  or  an)-  other  moonlighter  iliat 
ever  shook  a  clear  skin.' 


IX  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  259 

'A  quiet,  manly  young  fellow,  sergeant,' 
said  Atherstone  ;  '  I  had  a  talk  with  him  com- 
inp-  over.  You  want  more  natives  in  the 
police  to  be  on  equal  terms  with  these  down- 
the- river  fellows.  They  are  pretty  smart. 
to  do  them  justice,  and  it's  no  use  having  a 
man  who  can't  ride  to  follow  them.  It's  like 
setting  a  collie  dog  after  a  flying  forester 
buck.' 

'  We  are  getting  some  fine  young  men  in 
the  police  now,'  said  the  sergeant.  '  There's 
three  brothers  out  of  one  family  I  know,  born 
and  bred  Australians  ;  two  out  of  the  three 
promoted  already  and  the  other  safe  for  it. 
But  the  time's  getting  close  ;  I  hope  nothing's 
happened  to  the  beggars.' 

The  sergeant's  voice  expressed  such  a 
pathetic  tone  of  anxiety  that  the  young  men 
could  not  help  laughing.  However,  all  re- 
lapsed into  silence  shortly.  The  hands  of 
the  clock  in  the  room  pointed  towards  mid- 
night. Would  they  never  come }  or,  in  a 
few  moments  more,  would  the  deep  hush  of 
the  autumn  night  be  broken  by  shots  and 
strange  sounds,  groans  and  curses  ? 

'  How  the  moments  crawl ! '  said  Bertram, 


26o  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

lisfhtiii(:{  ;i  match  and  lu()kini>-  at  tlic  brass 
clock  on  the  mantel,  the  ticking:  of  which 
sounded  loud  and  sonorous  out  of  all  propor- 
tions to  its  size.  'Only  a  quarter-past  now 
— it  seems  half  an  hour  since  1  looked 
last.' 

'li  reminds  me  of  the  scene  in  0/d 
J\/orhi/i/y,'  said  Atherstone,  'when  the  fan- 
atics are  waiting  for  the  clock  to  strike 
to  put  Harry  Merton  to  death.  You  remem- 
ber one  of  them  hears  a  sound  in  the  distance 
which  he  says  is  "  the  wind  among  the 
brackens".'*  Another  declares  it  to  be  "the 
rippling  of  the  brook  over  the  pebbles." 
Then  a  third  says,  "  it  is  the  galloping  of 
horse." ' 

•Harry  who?'  asked  Bertram,  rather 
impatiently.  '  1  don't  remember  Walter 
Scott's  characters  ver\-  clearlx .  Thcv  all  seem 
so  dexilish  like  one  another  to  me.' 

'  1  lush  !'  said  the  sergeant,  in  a  low  v()ic<:. 
'By  —  !  here  they  are.  They'll  come  up  fast 
because  they  know  that  the  d()!_;s  will  give 
the  alarm.  1  heir  dart  is  to  be  in  ihc  hou.se 
before  any  one  has  lime  to  think  about  it.' 

As  ihr  four  men   list<-nc(l   iiUciuK-,  a    faint, 


IX  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  261 

dull  noise  in  the  distance  gradually  resolved 
itself  into  the  familiar  sound  of  hoof-beats, 
the  measured  strokes  of  horses  ridden  at 
speed,  which  came  nearer  and  still  nearer. 
In  the  stillness  of  the  night  each  sound  could 
be  heard  as  plainly  as  though  within  the 
home  paddock. 

At  this  moment  Constable  Gray  entered, 
his  eyes  glistening  with  excitement.  'They're 
near  a  mile  off  yet,'  he  said.  '  I  went  to  the 
paddock  gate  and  listened.  There's  three  of 
'em.  Three  horses,  any  road — that's  Johnny 
the  Pacer  has  joined  'em  ;  though  I  don't 
expect  he  means  fighting.  The  dogs'll 
challenge  when  they  come  a  bit  closer.' 

'You  stay  outside  till  they  dismount,'  said 
the  sergeant.  '  See  what  door  they  make  for, 
and  then  fall  back  on  us.  They  don't  know 
what's  before  them.' 

The  young  trooper  went  quietly  out, 
moving  with  cautious  and  wary  tread.  The 
roll  of  hoofs  sounded  yet  closer.  Suddenly 
there  arose  a  chorus  of  furious  barking  and 
fierce  growling  from  the  pack  of  dogs  of 
various  breed  which  a  head  station  always 
supports.     It  told  that  strangers — presumably 


262  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap,  ix 

hostile — had  at  that  kite  hour  invaded  the 
premises. 

Just  tlicn  Gray  re-entered.  '  One  man 
left  with  the  horses.  Two  coming  this  way, 
making  for  the  back-door.' 

'  It's  unlatched.'  said  the  sercrcant.  '  Let 
them  come.' 


CHAPTER   X 

In  another  moment  steps  were  heard  on 
the  verandah.  The  growHng  dogs,  still 
deeply  distrustful,  remained  in  the  yard.  A 
hand  tried  the  back-door  ;  it  yielded,  but  this 
apparently  excited  no  suspicion.  It  is  not 
the  custom  to  lock  up  houses  in  the  bush  of 
Australia.  Burglars  are  unknown,  and  bush- 
rangers prefer  to  transact  their  business 
chiefly  in  broad  daylight — about  the  hour 
of  1 1  A.M.  This  was  held  to  be  an 
exceptional  case. 

'  The  storekeeper  sleeps  off  the  big  room,' 
said  some  one  cautiously.  '  I  saw  him  there 
when  I  was  buying  tobacco.' 

'That's  Billy's  voice,'  whispered  Gray. 
'  I'd  know  it  amonsfst  a  thousand.' 

'  Let's  go  in  anyhow,'  a  rougher  voice 
answered.        '  There's    not    a    dashed    soul 


264  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

awake.  Lii^lit  a  match  and  we'll  have  him 
out.' 

A  match  Hashed,  lightinc^  up  the  dim 
room,  but  with  a  result  wholly  unexpected 
by  the  chief  actors  in  the  melodrama.  As 
they  looked  carelessly  round  the  silent 
room  they  could  hardly  restrain  a  start  of 
surprise  as  their  rovinu^  eyes  fell  upon  the 
sergeant  in  full  uniform,  the  armed  men,  the 
levelled  weapons.  At  the  same  moment  Mr. 
Gateward  arose  from  behind  his  bale,  and 
lij^hting  a  tallow  lamp,  retired  discreetly. 

lUit  in  far  less  time  than  is  occui)ied  in 
tracing  these  ephemeral  lines,  thought  had 
matured  and  action  followed.  (  )utnKuueuvred, 
outnumbered  as  they  were,  the  cool  courage 
(jf  the  race  was  as  manifest  in  these  unhappy 
outlaws  as  in  the  best  men  of  Britain's  warlike 
forces. 

'Surrender  in  the  Oueen's  name!'  roared 
the  sergeant.  '  lis  no  use,  IJilly  ;  beltt-r  give 
in  (juielly.' 

'  Not  alive  you  don't  get  us,'  answered 
the  younger  man,  wiili  the  .soft,  deliberate 
intonation  of  the  native-born  Australian, 
while  he  raised  his  re\  ulver. 


X  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  265 

The  other,  a  grizzled,  broad-shouldered 
ruffian,  shorter  than  his  companion  by  several 
inches,  forbore  reply,  but  firing  at  the 
sergeant's  first  word,  shot  Bertram  Devereux 
through  the  body,  sending  also  a  second 
bullet  into  Harold  Atherstone's  right  arm 
without  loss  of  time.  As  he  did  so, 
Atherstone  shifted  his  revolver  to  his  left  hand 
and  fired  deliberately.  The  robber  sprang 
and  fell  on  his  face. 

At  that  moment  it  seemed  as  if  every  fire- 
arm in  the  room  was  discharged  simultane- 
ously— the  sergeant's  rifle,  Gray's  and  Moss- 
thorne's  revolvers.  When  the  smoke  cleared, 
Mossthorne  lay  dead  with  a  rifle  bullet  through 
his  heart  and  with  a  smaller  bullet  through 
his  shoulder.  Bertram  Devereux,  bleeding 
profusely,  was  lying  insensible. 

Mr.  Gate  ward  had  come  forward  from 
behind  his  entrenchment.  '  Seems  there 
was  enough  of  you  without  me,'  he  said, 
'  but  I  felt  cowardly  like,  stowed  away 
behind  the  sheepskins.  But  surely  the 
Doctor  ain't  finished  this  young  gentle- 
man now,  as  well  as  the  poor  Captain 
long  ago  ? ' 


266  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

•  lly  — -!  that  rally's  over  quick!'  ex- 
claimed the  sergeant,  as  he  drew  a  full  breath 
and  gazed  around,  while  Mr.  Gatevvard  looked 
on  the  prostrate  forms  with  a  curious  mixture 
of  relief  and  regret.  '  Short  and  sharp  while 
it  lasted,  wasn't  it,  Mr.  Atherstone  ? '  the 
sergeant  continued,  addressing  himself  to 
that  gentleman,  who  had  raised  Devereux's 
head  with  his  left  arm,  and  was  trying  to 
discover  the  nature  of  the  wound.  '  I'd 
rather  have  taken  the  Doctor  alive,  but  he 
gave  us  no  time ;  shooting's  too  good  for 
him  !  As  for  poor  I^illy,  he's  better  where 
he  is  than  hjcked  uj)  in  gaol  for  his  natural 
life.  Now  about  Mr.  Devereux.  We  must 
look  to  him  first  thing.  He's  hard  hit,  but 
it  mayn't  be  serious.  Where's  Dr.  Ryan.-* 
Oh !  at  Wannonbah.  That's  just  right. 
We'll  want  him  for  the  inquest  besides. 
Constable  Gray  !  ' 

The  young  man,  who  had  Www  examining 
the  wound  in  Mossthorne's  breast,  stood  at 
attention.  'Take  my  roan  horse  and  ride 
like  h— 1  to  Wannonbali.  'rdl  I  )r.  Ryan 
to  come  h('re  straight.  Then  go  to  th<.- 
barracks    and    t<  11    the    senior    constable     to 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  267 


telegraph  to  the  coroner  straight  off.     Come 
back  with  him  yourself.' 

With  a  sign  of  assent  the  young  man 
passed  out  into  the  night.  A  rush  of 
flying  hoofs  told  in  marvellously  short 
space  that  he  was  speeding  on  his  errand 
on  the  best  three-miler  in  the  district. 

'  Now  let's  have  a  look  at  Mr.  Devereux,' 
said  Heme.  '  Hold  his  head  a  little  higher. 
How  do  you  feel,  sir  ?  Bleeding  stopped,  but 
you've  lost  a  lot  of  blood.  Faintish,  I 
daresay.  Gateward,  bring  the  brandy  out 
of  your  room  ;  a  taste  will  do  him  good 
— and  Mr.  Atherstone  too,  for  the  matter 
of  that.  Seems  the  ball  turned  outward. 
Breathe  a  little,  sir.  That's  all  right,'  as 
the  wounded  man  took  a  deep  inspiration. 
'  Take  a  sip  of  this,  and  we'll  carry  you  to  bed.' 

'  I  feel  better,  I  think,'  said  the  wounded 
man,  speaking  with  difficulty.  '  I  must  have 
fainted,  I  suppose.  That  scoundrel  was  too 
quick  for  me.  I  thought  he  might  surrender. 
What !  are  you  winged,  Atherstone  ?  ' 

'  Yes,  worse  luck,'  said  Harold,  suppressing 
a  groan  as  the  broken  bone  grated.  '  The 
fellow  did  not  shoot  badly,  either.      Billy  just 


268  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

missed  the  sergeant,  I  see.      There's  his  bullet 
mark  in  the  door.' 

'He  fired  first;  but  I  didn't  miss  hiui,' 
replied  that  officer,  with  a  grim  smile. 
'  Gray's  revolver  bullet  went  through  his 
shoulder.  You  dropped  the  Doctor  in 
good  time,  Mr.  Atherstone,  just  before  he 
got  to  his  tliiril  barrel.  We'd  better  put 
a  cloth  over  them  now.' 

As  he  spoke  a  tall  white  female  figure 
appeared  in  the  doorway.  It  was  Pollie 
Devereu.x  hersell,  wrapi^ed  in  a  dressing- 
gown.  In  her  eyes,  wide  and  shining  in 
the  half-light,  was  horror  unspeakable,  with 
nameless  dread,  as  she  gazed  upon  the  forms 
that  lay  prone  and  so  motionless. 

'  I  could  not  wait  longer  after  the  shots 
ceased,' she  said  pleadingl)'.  'I  was  growing 
mad  with  anxiety.  Mother  is  praying  still. 
Are  the  men  b(nh  dead  .•*  This  one  is  Billy 
Mossthornc,  I  know.  Poor  fellow!  I  can't 
hclj)  being  sorry  for  liim.  1  remember  his 
being  at  Maroobil.' 

i  ier  gaze,  which  had  jjeen  for  the  moment 
riveted  to  the  still  ff)rms  which 

Lay  as  dead  men  only  lie, 


X  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  269 

Strayed  towards  the  darker  corner  of  the 
room,  where  Atherstone  was  supporting 
Bertram  Devereux.  The  expression  of 
her  features  changed  instantaneously  to 
that  of  agonising  terror.  She  raised  her 
arms  with  a  gesture  of  despair,  and  for 
the  moment  seemed  as  if  about  to  abandon 
herself  to  a  transport  of  grief.  But  re- 
covering with  a  strong  effort  of  will,  she 
sprang  to  the  side  of  the  wounded  man, 
and  kneeling,  threw  her  arms  around  his 
neck,  while  she  implored  Harold  to  tell 
her  if  the  wound  was  mortal. 

*  Oh,  how  his  blood  has  been  flowing ! ' 
she  said.  'How  pale  he  is!  His  eyes  are 
shut.  And  you  too,  Harold  ?  Your  arm 
is  hurt ;  and  I  was  wicked  enough  to  joke 
about  him  last  night.  If  he  dies  I  shall 
never  forgive  myself.  Oh,  my  dear,  dear 
Bertram  ! ' 

Whether  this  impassioned  adjuration  had 
any  special  effect  upon  the  patient  is  uncertain, 
but  as  he  opened  his  eyes,  he  smiled  faintly 
in  acknowledgment  of  the  sympathetic 
words. 

'  Much    better,    dearest    Pollie,'    he    said. 


270  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

'  No  cause — for — alarm — much  better.  Flesh 
wound — only.'  With  this  he  turned  pale  and 
closed  his  eyes. 

*  Oh !  wJiy  has  not  some  one  gone  for 
the  doctor  .-''  demanded  the  girl  passionately, 
'lie  may  die  yet  for  want  of  assistance,  and 
we  are  so  helpless.  1  will  go  myself  to 
Wannonbah  if  there  is  no  one  else.' 

'  Constable  Gray  is  half-way  there  by  this 
time,'  said  Harold  calmly.  '  No  time  has 
been  lost.  If  1  might  suggest,  you  will  help 
us  best  by  asking  Mrs.  Devereux  to  be  kind 
enough  to  hav(.'  your  cousin's  bedroom  pre- 
pared, so  that  W(;  may  carry  him  in.' 

'  You  are  quite  right.  Mother  and  I  w  ill 
watch  by  him  till  Dr.  Ryan  comes.  I  know 
I  am  unreasonable  and  foolish,  but  you  must 
bear  with  me  a  little.     Is  yoiu'  wound  painful  .'* ' 

'My  wound  is  a  scrali;h,  he  answered 
roughly.  'I)()n't  tremble  yourself  about  It. 
Ask  your  mother  lo  do  what  I  sax.'  Upon 
this  i*ollic  retired  ;  and  uilh  but  little  loss  of 
time  Mr.  Ijcrtram  I)evereu.\  was  placed  upon 
his  own  bed  in  the  s|)acious  apartment  which 
he  occupied,  and  with  all  the  necessary  arrange- 
ments pr()mj)lly  made  lor  liis  beiielii. 


X  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  271 

Mrs.  Devereux  at  once  devoted  herself  to 
his  relief  and  solace  as  if  she  had  been  his 
mother.  Her  heart  was  stirred  with  addi- 
tional tenderness  as  she  recalled  her  husband's 
death  from  a  similar  wound  at  the  hands  of 
the  same  man.  For  the  truth  had  leaked  out 
through  Mr.  Gateward.  The  widow  of  Brian 
Devereux  now  knew  that  the  hand  stained 
with  her  husband's  life-blood  had  been  im- 
brued with  that  of  the  younger  scion  of  the 
house,  now  wan  and  helpless  before  her  ;  that 
the  robber  in  his  turn  had  fallen  by  Harold 
Atherstone's  bullet  and  lay  dead  beneath  her 
roof 

'  Thank  God  !  Harold  is  but  slighdy  hurt,' 
she  exclaimed.  '  I  regard  him  with  a  feeling 
I  should  extend  to  no  other  man  as  the  avenger 
of  my  husband's  blood.  But  oh  !  if  the  boy 
be  likewise  sacrificed !  What  a  fate  seems 
to  pursue  the  race.  May  God  in  His  infinite 
mercy  avert  it ! ' 

Pollie  had  been  sent  to  bed  with  peremptory 
commands  to  go  to  sleep  instantly,  and  on  no 
account  to  rise  till  she  was  called.  The 
mother  watched,  hour  after  hour,  with  the 
unwearied    patience    of    women    under    the 


272  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

excitation  of  grief  or  duly.  F.re  daylight 
broke,  a  trampling  of  horses  was  heard,  and 
the  man  of  skill,  the  arbiter  of  life  and  death, 
appeared  in  the  chamber. 

After  careful  examination,  1  )r.  l\.)an  gave 
it  as  his  decided  opinion  that  the  bullet  had 
taken  an  outward  course  ;  had  therefore 
injured  no  vital  organ  ;  that  the  faintness  had 
been  caused  by  loss  of  blood,  which  symptom 
was  natural,  but  not  necessarily  dangerous. 
He  commanded  Mrs.  Devereux  to  seek  the 
rest  she  required,  saying  that  he  would  take 
her  place  at  the  bedside  of  his  j)aii(MU.  He 
would  see  what  Mr.  Atherstone's  injury  was 
like,  and  would  make  a  search  fur  the  missing 
bullet  in  the*  morning. 

'  You  will  have  me  here  for  a  day  or  two, 
Mrs.  Devereux,  so  you  must  make  me  useful. 
It  will  all  come  to  the  same  in  ihc  1)111.  I 
shall  be  w. lilted  when  the  coroner  comes, 
b'nrtunate  escape  you  h,i\-e  all  had,  to  be  sure.' 

\\  ilh  ilu;  morn  came  gijod  lidings,  and 
n-licf  from  the  doubts  and  fears  which  had  so 
cruelly  lorliircd  the  dwellers  at  Corindah. 
1  )r.   l\\.ui.  by  his  exercise  of  professional  skill 


X  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  273 

or  the  aid  of  exceptional  good  fortune,  verified 
his  favourable  diagnosis  by  extracting  the 
bullet,  which  had  lodged  in  the  outer  muscle. 
The  bleeding  having  ceased  and  the  wound 
been  dressed,  there  was  no  reason,  he  averred, 
why  the  patient,  with  such  careful  and  intelli- 
gent nursing  as  he  was  certain  to  enjoy  at 
Corindah,  should  not  be  well  and  hearty 
within  the  month. 

The  coroner  too,  a  high  and  dignified 
official,  arrived  with  the  jury,  more  police, 
and,  it  appeared,  likewise  with  a  large  pro- 
portion of  the  population  of  Wannonbah. 
The  inquest  was  held  duly  and  formally,  a 
jury  of  twelve  being  impanelled,  by  whom  a 
verdict  of  justifiable  homicide  was  returned, 
the  slain  men  being  declared  to  have  been 
killed  in  righteous  defence.  A  rider  was 
added  to  the  effect  that  '  the  conduct  of 
Sergeant  Heme  and  Constable  Gray  was 
deserving  of  high  commendation,  their  cool- 
ness and  courage  rendering  them,  in  the 
opinion  of  the  jury,  worthy  of  speedy  pro- 
motion. In  token  of  which,  as  well  the 
Coroner  as  we  the  said  jurors  have  attached 
our  seals,'  etc. 

T 


274  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

The  bodies  were  buried  in  the  little  grave- 
yard of  Wannonbah,  situated  upon  a  yarran- 
shaded  sandhill  about  a  mile  from  that  infant 
city.  The  denominational  divisions,  owing 
to  the  climate  or  other  inlluences  perhaps, 
were  not  so  strictly  defined  as  is  the  case 
in  some  rural  Australian  cemeteries,  where  a 
closely  paled  fence  divides  Protestant  from 
Catholic,  and  Jew  from  Dissenter.  At 
Wannonbah  the  dead  slept  much  as  they 
pleased,  or  rather,  as  their  relatives  desired. 
So  Hilly  Mossthorne,  having  kinsfolk  and 
sympathisers  in  the  district,  was  buried  near 
a  maternal  aunt  who  had  nursed  hini  in  his 
childhood  ;  and  the  Doctor,  coming  in  for 
his  share  of  indulgent  forgiveness,  was  in- 
terred by  the  side  of  a  horse-breaker  of 
reasonably  unblemished  character. 

Corindah  was  again  Irantiuil.  The  in- 
evitable sequences,  great  and  small,  of  the 
night  attack  had  been  disposed  of  The 
police  troopers,  the  doctor,  the  coroner,  the 
jurors  had  come  and  gone.  The  account 
/;/  cxtcnso  of  the  '  l)attl(\  murder,  and  sudden 
death,'  had  been  first  jiublished  in  the 
Wannonbah    Waliliuian,  \\\\([   then   had   i/one 


X  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  275 

the  round  of  the  metropoHtan  and  provincial 
papers.  Sergeant  Miles  Heme  was  pro- 
moted to  be  sub-inspector,  Constable  Gray 
to  be  senior  constable.  Then  the  excitement 
ended,  and  the  midnight  affray  at  Corindah 
slipped  into  the  limbo  of  partly  forgotten  facts. 
One  or  two  results,  however,  were  not 
so  speedily  disposed  of.  Harold  Ather- 
stone's  good  right  arm  was  of  very  little 
use  to  him  during  the  ensuing  half-year, 
the  broken  bones  being  somewhat  tardy 
in  uniting  ;  and  Bertram  Devereux,  through 
carelessness  on  his  own  part,  had  a  relapse, 
and  after  hoverino-  between  life  and  death 
for  several  weeks,  lay  deathlike  and  slowly 
recovering  in  his  room,  needing  the  most 
careful  and  constant  attendance  to  '  bring 
him  through,'  as  Dr.  Ryan  expressed  it 
himself.  In  this  labour  of  love  both  mother 
and  daughter  were  closely  engaged  for  many 
a  day  after  the  event.  It  was  the  first 
time  that  Pollie's  feminine  instincts  had 
been  called  into  play  by  the  necessity  for 
personal  service  which  a  wounded  soldier 
generally  imposes  upon  the  nearest  available 
maiden.      No  situation,  as  persons  of  experi- 


276  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chai-. 

cnce  will  ddinit,  is  more  favourable  to  the 
development  of  the  tender  passion.  The 
touching  helplessness  of  the  sufferer,  the 
sense  of  possession  and  ownership,  so  to 
speak — albeit  temporar)' — the  allowable  ex- 
asi^geralion  of  gratitude,  the  implied  devotion: 
all  these  circumstances  in  combination  render 
the  relative  positions  of  maiden  fair  antl  help- 
less knight  so  extremely  suitable  for  mutual 
attachment,  that  the  blind  archer  rarely  fails 
to  score  an  inner  gold. 

So,  during  the  patient  hours  when  the 
heavy  eyes  were  closed,  when  the  i:)ale  brow 
required  bathing  with  cau  dc  Cologne,  when 
the  spasm  of  pain  contracted  the  features, 
wh(.'n  the  restless  fever  -  tossed  frame  lay 
helpless,  the  heart  of  the  maiden,  unfolding 
flower -like,  grew  tender  and  loving.  She 
persuaded  herself  that  a  fate  mightier  than 
themselves  had  decreed  their  union.  She 
awaited  but  the  avowal  which  his  eyes  had 
long  made,  but  which  his  lips  had  not  yet 
confirmed,  to  acknowledges  herself  his  own  for 
ever,  in  life  or  death,  here  in  her  native  land 
or  in  the  unknown  regions  bcvond  the  sea. 

Alter  much  consideration   Miss  I  )evereu.\ 


X  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  277 

had  sagely  concluded  that  Bertram  was  the 
only  man  she  had  ever  met  who  inspired  her 
with  feelings  of  sufficiently  romantic  intensity, 
who  aroused  in  her  as  yet  untouched  heart 
the  longing  and  the  dread,  the  joy  and  the 
mystery,  the  strange,  inexplicable,  subtly 
compounded  essence  which  the  poets  in  all 
agfes  have  termed  love. 

Why  it  should  be  so  she  was  unable  to 
comprehend.  She  told  herself  that  he  was 
not  so  strong  and  true  as  this  adorer,  so 
clever  as  that,  or  so  amusing  as  the  other ; 
but  still,  why  was  it  ?  Who  can  tell  .'^  who 
explain  the  birth  of  fancy,  the  apparition 
of  love?  But  she  chose  to  make  him  her 
hero.  And  if  she  so  willed  it,  who  was  there 
to  gainsay  her  ? 

Among  the  other  privileges  which  her 
nursing  sisterhood  permitted  was  that  of 
receiving  and  bringing  in  the  letters  of  her 
patient.  About  these  he  had  always  been 
reticent,  never  encouraging  conversation 
thereon,  or  admitting  that  any  patently 
feminine  superscriptions  were  not  those  of 
his  mother,  sisters,  or  cousins. 

Among  those  which  arrived  by  the  monthly 


-78  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiai-. 

mail-steamer  was  one,  the  peculiar  handwriting 
of  which  Pollie  remembered  having  noticed  at 
an  earlier  period  of  his  sojourn.  The  char- 
acters were  delicately  formed,  but  the  abrupt 
terminal  strokes  indicated,  as  she  thought, 
no  ordinary  degree  of  determination,  even 
obstinacy  of  purpose. 

'Ah!  my  cousin  Eleanor,' he  said  with  a 
faint  smile,  as  she  held  up  the  letter  ;  '  she  is 
my  most  regular,  most  useful  correspondent. 
Poor  little  Nellie,  how  she  would  stare  to  see 
me  lyiuL;  here  !  She  was  my  best  friend  when 
1  was  a  graceless  schoolboy,  and  takes  an 
interest  in  the  poor  exile  now.'  lie  opened 
the  other  letters  one  by  one,  bul  did  not  seem 
to  avail  himself  of  this  one.  '  It  will  keep,' 
he  .said  carelessly.  '  Country  news,  for  which 
1  am  losing  my  relish.  j)()achers  aiul  pheasants, 
huntini;'  and  c()ursinL,^  (luitc  a  journal  of  \illage 
historiettes.' 

'  A  good  correspondent,  evidently,'  said 
I'ollie.  'J»^jdging  from  the  thickness  of  the 
letters,  she  deserves  .some  gratitude.  lUit 
when  we  women  harness  ourselves  to  a 
man's  chariot,  that  is  the  tnalinciii  we 
chielly  receive.' 


X  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  279 

'  That  we  are  always  over-indulged,'  he 
answered,  with  a  faint  smile  and  a  meaning 
look,  'I  am  the  last  man  living  to  deny.  But 
what  must  we  do  ?  It  is  cruel  to  refuse  kind 
offices,  the  mere  acceptance  of  which  so 
gratifies  the  donor.' 

'  It  may  be  so,'  assented  the  girl  thought- 
fully, '  but  the  bare  suspicion  that  my  offering 
was  tole^'ated  would  madden  me.  "All  or 
nothing  "  is  the  Devereux  motto,  and  it  seems 
to  embody  the  family  temperament.' 

Poor  Pollie !  could  her  eyes  have  pierced 
the  inclosure ! 

This  was  the  missive  she  unconsciously 
bore  to  the  interesting  sufferer : — 

Wynton  Hall,  27//;  May  188- 
My  own  darling  Bertie — You  seem  carelessly  to 
have  missed  the  last  mail,  at  which  I  was  woefully  dis- 
appointed, and  besides,  I  was  not  by  any  means  satisfied 
with  the  tone  of  your  last  letter,  sir !  I  read  it,  yes, 
fool  that  I  am,  over  and  over  again,  to  see  if  I  could 
not  cheat  myself  into  the  belief  that  your  feelings  towards 
me  were  unchanged  and,  as  mine  are,  unchangeable. 

But  I  could  not  do  it.  Something,  too,  seems  to 
exhale  from  the  very  lines  of  your  writing,  every  letter  of 
which  I  know  so  well,  breathing  coldness  and  change, 
the  decay  of  love,  the  death  of  constancy. 

Yes,   Bertram   Devereux,    I   distrust   you.     You  are 


28o  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

beginning  to  play  a  double  game.  Another  woman  has 
taken  your  fancy — most  likely  the  lovely  cousin  of  whom 
you  wrote  in  your  first  letter,  but  about  whom  you  have 
been  suspiciously  silent  or  guarded  of  late.  Vou  can 
deceive,  have  deceived  many  people,  but  you  never 
deceived  me.  So  beware  !  If  for  money,  or  what  you 
men  call  love,  you  elect  to  play  the  traitor  with  me,  to 
prove  false  to  the  vows  which  you  called  heaven  and 
earth  to  witness,  to  break  the  compact  which  T  have 
rigidl)'  observed — gardez-vous  bicn,  man  ami  ! 

If  you  do  not  already  know  me  sufficiently,  believe 
this,  that  you  will  do  so.  I  will  never  be  deserted  and 
scorned  with  impunity.  I  hold  you  bound  to  me  by 
the  most  sacred  oaths,  by  what  I  have  forfeited  on  earth 
irrevocably,  by  what  in  heaven  or  hell  I  may  yet  have  to 
expiate.  And  remember,  I  am  capable  of  anyt/ii/ig  in 
the  way  of  revenge  to  punish  your  falsehood. 

If  you  dare  to  betray  me,  to  doom  me  to  a  life  of 
loneliness  and  remorse,  to  the  torture  of  neglect,  to  the 
endless  regret  of  desertion  and  contempt — but  no,  you 
cannot  dream  of  perpetrating  such  fiendish  cruelty.  I 
am  mad  to  make  the  accusation.  My  brain  seems  on 
fire.  I  can  write  no  more.  Believe  me  for  ever  and 
for  ever  yours  only,  Sviui.  df.   Wvnton. 

Thai  niL^hl  the  slccj;  of  ilu;  coinalescent 
was  troiiMcil.  I  lis  head  moxcd  restlessly  on 
the  jjillow.  llis  hrain  was  feverishly  active. 
His  soothing  draui^hl  failed  of  its  effect. 
When  Pollie  came  to  his  bedsiilc  with  his 
breakfast  she  was  shocked  at  the  dr  luii  look 


X  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  281 

of  his  face,  its  pallor,  and  the  dark  rings 
under  his  eyes. 

'We  must  keep  back  your  home  letters 
until  you  are  quite  strong,'  she  said,  with  an 
archly  innocent  smile,  and  a  child's  mis- 
chievous gleam  in  her  eye,  '  if  they  affect 
you  like  this.  Your  cousin's  country  chronicle 
must  be  strong  meat  for  babes.  But  perhaps 
you  have  really  had  bad  news,  and  I  am  talk- 
ing foolishness  ? ' 

'  My  news  is  of  a  mixed  complexion,'  he 
said,  trying  to  assume  a  cheerful  expression. 
'  Partly  good,  but  I  have  been  disappointed 
in  an  important  matter  upon  which  I  had 
set  my  heart.  But  I  am  so  weak  that  the 
least  thing  tells  upon  me.'  Here  he  lifted 
his  eyes  to  the  sympathetic,  tender  face, 
which  to  him  now  seemed  as  that  of  an 
angel,  and  a  wistful  appeal  for  pity  appeared 
to  be  written  on  every  line  of  his  counte- 
nance. 

It  was  the  fateful  moment  in  which  heart 
answers  to  heart,  and  the  destinies  of  two 
beings  are  for  ever  determined.  It  was  the 
electric  spark  which  fires  the  mine,  which 
shatters  the  feeble  defence  raised  by  reason 


282  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

against  that  most  ancient  strategist  and  arch- 
conqueror,  Love,  A  change  passed  over  the 
girl's  countenance,  so  swift,  so  subtle,  so  pro- 
found, that  a  less  experienced  student  of 
woman's  ways  might  have  read  the  sign. 
To  Bertram  Devereux  it  was  the  plainest  of 
print — with  love's  surrender  in  every  line. 
He  saw  that  [jity,  measureless  and  tender,  as 
is  woman's  sympathy  for  man's  strength  laid 
low,  had  completed  the  spell  which  had  been 
working  on  her  sensitive,  imaginative  nature 
since  his  arrival.  But  for  his  wound,  his 
near  escape  from  death,  the  long  hours  of 
tendance,  he  doubted  whether  the  capture  of 
this  shy,  sweet  wild-bird  of  the  waste  would 
have  been  effected.  But  now  he  doubted  no 
longer.  She  would  nestle  in  his  bosom, 
would  trill  her  song  and  curb  her  flight  at 
his  desire.  The  victory  was  won,  and  in  the 
blaze  of  his  triumph  all  doubts  vanished  as 
clouds  at  dawn.  I' or  the  moincni  he  scorned 
th(r  dread  which  had  torLured  him  in  the 
dreary  night-watclu's.  lie  forgot  that  he 
was  a  coward  and  a  traitor.  lie  banished 
the  thought  of  the  satl,  rei)roachhil  gaze  of  a 
f()rsak<:n  woman.      .\  new  life  in  a   new  land. 


X  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  283 

a  new  world  of  love  and  splendour  lay  before 
him. 

Their  eyes  had  met,  their  hands,  their 
lips,  long  before  this  glowing,  passionate 
thought- procession  passed  through  his  ex- 
cited brain.  As  the  girl  sat  by  the  bed-side 
of  her  pale,  death-stricken  lover,  with  his 
wasted  hand  in  hers,  she  felt  as  if  the  sur- 
render of  her  every  thought  and  feeling  to 
his  future  welfare  would  be  a  price  all  too 
small  to  pay  for  the  boundless  happiness 
which  had  been  granted  to  her.  She  was 
the  most  favoured  of  earth's  daughters.  All 
other  thoughts  and  sensations  showed  wan 
and  lifeless  before  this  wondrous  magic  rose 
of  love. 

'  But  I  must  leave  you,  Bertram  dear,' 
she  said.  '  You  are  too  weak  to  be  troubled 
with  me.  No!  not  another  minute.  Mother 
will  bring  you  your  medicine.  You  must 
then  have  a  good  sleep,  and  wake  up  quite 
a  new  man.'  So,  with  one  long  look  of 
tenderest  denial,  the  fairy  of  his  dreams 
vanished  from  the  gazer's  sight. 

The  days  of  Bertram  Devereux's  linger- 
ing   in    hospital    were    nearly   ended.      Over 


284  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap,  x 

those  which  he  still  li;ul  to  undergo  was  shed 
the  radiance,  the  sweet  love-light  of  woman's 
first  love.  He  seemed  to  gain  strength  from 
that  hour.  He  was  soon  able  to  lie  at 
lencfth  and  dn^am  in  the  cane  lounsje  in  the 
shaded  verandah  ;  later  on,  to  wander  amid 
the  orange  trees  hy  ihe  lagoon  edge,  suj)- 
ported  indeed  by  Follies  fair  round  arm,  and 
closely  pressed  to  that  true  and  tender  heart. 
At  the  termination  of  his  illness,  when  but 
for  a  slightly  added  pallor,  a  languor,  that 
but  accentuated  his  ordinary  indifferent 
manner,  no  trace  remained  of  the  effects  of 
the  wound  that  had  well-nigh  pro\-ed  fital, 
it  was  then  officially  made  known  to  the 
friends  of  the  family  that  the  heiress  of 
Corindah  was  engaged  to  be  married  to  her 
cousin  Mr.  I  )evereux,  late  of  ller  Majesty's 
.Sixth  Dr.iLJOon  ("iiiards. 


CHAPTER   XI 

Even  in  the  first  flush  and  transport  of  her 
love-dream  Pollie  could  not  wholly  divest 
herself  of  the  dread  that  Bertram  Devereux 
might  in  England  have  loved  with  all  the 
depth  of  his  nature  some  one  who  even  now 
had  claims  upon  him.  In  vain  she  asked 
herself  why  such  a  thought  should  have 
passed  through  her  mind.  She  could  not 
tell.  But,  to  her  deep  unrest,  it  remained 
to  arise  and  torment  her  at  intervals,  like 
an  unquiet  spirit.  On  the  subject  of  his 
feminine  correspondence  she  had  noticed,  as 
she  thought,  a  departure  from  his  usual  calm- 
ness, a  studied  air  of  carelessness.  What  if 
her  surmises  should  be  true,  that  he  was 
either  engaged  or  had  been  the  victim  of  one 
of  those  absorbing,  soul-engrossing  attach- 
ments which  leave  the  heart  of  man  a  burnt- 


2S6  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

out  volcano — barren,  lifeless,  dead  to  all 
succeeding  inlluences?  She  would  ask  him. 
The  torment  of  doubt  on  such  a  subject  was 
too  acute  for  endurance.  Yet  so  far  iiad 
she  softened  towards  liim,  so  far  was  her 
whole  nature  in  a  malleable  state,  that  if  he 
had  but  made  frank  confession  she  could 
have  forgiven  him. 

And  one  day  accident  led  uj)  to  the 
subject  of  previous  attachment.  Having 
disclaimed,  on  her  pari,  the  slighest  tender- 
ness in  the  past  to  living  man,  she  looked 
her  lover  full  in  the  face,  as  was  her  wont 
when  aroused,  and  said — 

'  ^'ou  have  had  my  disclaimer,  but  tell 
me  now,  Bertram,  if  there  lives  any  woman 
in  the  land  you  have  left  who  is  able  to  say, 
"  riiat  is  my  lover.  This  is  ihc  man  whose 
vows,  if  kept,  would  bind  him  lo  me  till 
death.  lie  has  broken  faith  and  betrayed 
love  in  deserting  me  now."  Answ(?r  me  truly, 
on  )()ur  soul's  ])eril,  and  the  subject  shall  be 
buried  for  evermore' 

As  she  realised  in  her  own  mind  the  slow 
torlurc,  the  melancholy  days,  the  'dead  un- 
liaj^py  nights'   to  which   a  woman    is  doi)mctl 


XI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  287 

who  waits  in  vain  for  him  whom  she  loves, 
hoping  against  hope,  refusing  the  sad  truth, 
until  all  limit  of  credence  be  passed,  so 
vehement  an  indignation  fired  her  every 
feeling  against  the  imaginary  recreant  that 
she  looked  like  an  inspired  vestal  denouncing 
the  sins  of  a  nation.  '  Tell  me  truly,  Bert- 
ram,' she  said,  'that  there  is  no  hateful  ghost 
of  a  dead  love  between  you  and  my  soul's 
devotion.' 

A  thrill  passed  through  his  inmost  heart 
as  he  thought  how  nearly  her  random  shaft 
had  touched  the  dark  secret  of  his  life.  Yet 
his  eyes  met  hers  fully  and  fairly.  With 
men  he  had  ever  been  exact  and  truthful, 
even  to  bluntness,  but  in  the  school  of  ethics 
in  which  he  had  been  reared  it  was  held  no 
dishonour  to  lie  frankly  where  a  woman  was 
concerned.     So  he  bore  himself  accordingly. 

'I  scarcely  think,' he  said  slowly,  'that 
a  man  is  bound  to  lay  bare  the  whole  of  his 
former  life  to  the  woman  he  is  about  to 
marry,  nor  is  she  wise  to  ask  it.  But,'  and 
here  he  looked  steadily  into  her  innocent, 
trustful  eyes,  '  if  it  comforts  you  to  think  that 
you  are  the  sole  possessor  of  this  invaluable 


288  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiai>. 

heart  of  mine,  I  give  you  my  word  that  no 
other  woman  has  the  shadow  of  a  claim 
upon  it.' 

•  I  lj('lieve  you,'  she  said  ;  '  il  rrmovcs  my 
last  lingering  doubt  as  to  our  perfect  happi- 
ness. In  sickness,  in  health,  in  poverty  or 
riches,  by  land  or  sea.  never  had  man  a 
truer  mate  than  you  will  find  in  me.' 

He  drew  her  to  his  side  in  silence,  even 
then  repenting  of  his  falsehood  to  this  trust- 
ing, easily  deceived  creature.  Still,  what 
good  would  it  do  her  to  know  }  Why  pain 
her  sensitive  heart  }  And  was  there  any — 
the  remotest — chance  of  his  deceit  being  ex- 
posed? An  ocean  rolled  between  him  and 
that  passionate,  headstrong  woman  whom  he 
had  loved  with  the  unreflecting  ardour  of 
youth.  Circumstances  had  certainly  tended 
of  late  years  to  faxour  tin-  idea  that  she 
would  be  free.  In  that  event  he  had  sworn 
a  thousand  times  to  make  her  his  wife.  Hut 
it  was  a  contingency  which  might  never  arise. 
I II  the  m<  aniiinc  was  he  to  give  up  a  career 
such  as  was  now  (»pcning  before  hini.-^  A 
lovely,  loving  bride,  who  would  be  an  en\ii(l 
possession  wherever  they    wiiit.^      ;\  fortune 


XI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  2S9 

which  would  enable  him  to  satisfy  all  desires 
and  tastes  hitherto  ungratified  ?  Was  all  this 
to  be  sacrificed — for  what  ?  For  a  passion 
of  which  he  had  overrated  the  force  and 
permanence  in  the  days  of  inexperience  ? 
The  price  was  too  great  to  pay. 

The  marriage  was  fixed  for  the  ensuing^ 
November,  the  first  summer  month.  They 
would  leave  the  hot  plains  of  the  North-West 
for  New  Zealand,  after  visiting  the  Australian 
capitals.  Side  by  side  they  would  revel  in 
the  glories  of  Rotomahana,  sail  on  the  magic 
lake,  and  marvel  over  the  fairy  terraces,  re- 
turning only  with  the  last  month  of  autumn, 
when  the  peerless  winter  of  the  interior 
would  be  before  them.  A  year's  peaceful 
enjoyment  of  the  quiet  Corindah  life  would 
prepare  them  for  the  momentous,  unutterably 
delicious  expedition  to  the  Old  World,  when 
the  dream  of  Pollie's  life  would  be  realised 
and  an  elysium  of  bliss,  a  paradise,  intellec- 
tual, social  and  material,  would  open  before 
her. 

'  You  romantic  child ! '  Bertram  said, 
looking  almost   pityingly   at  her,    as   in  one 


290  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

of  her  imaginative  flights  she  was,  like  an 
improvvisatrice,  picturing  vividly  a  long  list 
of  pleasures  to  come.  '  And  so  ycHi  believe 
in  happiness !  I  only  trust  you  will  not 
be  disillusioned  when  we  reach  this  wonder- 
ful dream  h^ngland  of  yours.  And  yet  it 
may  be  so,'  he  said,  smoothing  her  bright 
hair  as  one  placates  a  child.  '  In  your 
company,  C)  my  sweet,  I  shall  renew 
the  youth  I  have  been  in  danger  of 
losing.' 

Whatever  might  have  been  JNIr.  Bertram 
Devercux's  secret  thoughts  on  the  subject 
of  his  prospects,  he  appeared  to  have  im- 
proved outwardly,  as  all  the  neighbours  and 
employees  agreed.  The  alteration  extended 
to  his  general  demeanour.  He  threw  off  in 
great  part  th(^  reserve  which  had  markcel 
his  earli(;r  tone,  and  assumed  a  genial  7'olc 
which  no  one  could,  when  he  lik(;d.  sustain 
better  than  himself.  lie  look  occasion  to 
visit  Wannonbah  more  frecjuently.  I  le 
identified  himself  with  the  local  interests  and 
occuijalions  of  the  district.  lie  utilised  his 
exceptional  gills  and  allaimnenls  to  such 
purpose   thai    all    en\y   .n   his    good   fortune 


XI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  291 

disappeared.  He  was  finally  voted  by  the 
younger  squatters  and  the  Wannonbah 
society  generally  to  be  a  *  deuced  good  fellow ' 
(when  you  came  to  know  him),  who  would 
take  his  position  among  them,  and  be  an 
acquisition  to  the  district. 

Harold  Atherstone  had  gone  away  for 
change  of  air  about  the  time  when  his  arm 
was  recovering  its  strength,  and  did  not 
return  until  the  engagement  between  Pollie 
and  her  cousin  was  matter  of  general 
comment.  He  heard  of  it,  indeed,  before 
he  left  town,  at  his  club.  What  his  sensa- 
tions were  at  the  announcement  none  ever 
knew.  A  man  who  bore  his  griefs  and 
failures  in  secret,  he  disclosed  none  of  his 
deeper  feelings.  When  he  met  Pollie 
Devereux  in  her  own  home,  it  was  with  an 
untroubled  brow.  The  kind,  brave  face,  the 
wise,  steadfast  eyes,  which  she  had  known 
from  childhood,  were  unaltered. 

Pollie  herself  had  vague  misgivings  that 
her  all-important  step  would  not  meet  with 
his  approbation.  Knowing  that  she  needed 
not  to  hold  herself  responsible  to  him  or  any 
other,  she  yet  feared  lest  a  kind  of  indefinable 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


injustice  liad  been  done  by  forsaking  so 
loyal  a  friend.  She  would  have  felt  un- 
speakably relieved  by  his  full  approbation 
and  consent. 

'You  have  heard  of  my  engagement,'  she 
said,  as  he  held  her  hand  at  their  first  meeting 
after  his  return.  'Are  you  not  going  to 
give  me  joy  and  congratulate  me  o\\  my 
happiness  .■* ' 

'  I  may  congratulate  ///;//,'  he  said,  a  little 
sadly.  '  My  wishes  for  your  happiness  need 
no  renewal.  They  tlo  not  date  from  to-day. 
as  you  well  know.  \\  hal(!\er  rentiers  you 
happy  and  jjreserves  you  so  will  always  be 
a  part  of  my  joy  In  life.  May  God  bless 
you,  dear,  and  keep  )ou  from  sorrow  ever- 
more !  ' 

in  a  half-unconscious  way  he  drew  the 
girl  towards  him,  and  kissed  her  as  might 
a  brollier  -tend<'rly,  Ixil  without  passion. 
Then  he  turned  and  left  lier,  while  she 
walked  slowly  and  pensively  towards  th<t 
house.  She  felt  lliat  he  had  forgiven  her  ; 
that  \\v.  was  too  nobk;  to  harbour  envy  or 
resentment.  IWil  ulih  woman's  ([uickncss 
she  divined  tliat  he  was  griexcd  to  the  heart, 


XI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  293 

and  that  all  his  self-command  was  needed  to 
enable  him  to  appear  unmoved.  Again  and 
again  she  asked  herself  whether  she  had  done 
wisely  in  following  the  passion-cries  of  her 
heart  rather  than  the  dictates  of  reason.  A 
vain  wish  that  she  could  have  combined 
both  agitated  her.  Of  how  many  women 
and  men  mi^ht  the  same  tale  be  told ! 

Mrs.  Devereux  was  rather  resigned  to  the 
art-angement  as  inevitable  and  impossible 
to  amend  than  wholly  approving.  More 
acute  and  experienced,  she  had  noticed  the 
smaller  defects  of  character  in  Bertram 
Devereux  which  had  escaped  the  eye  of  her 
daughter.  Not  that  Pollie  would  have 
suffered  them  to  influence  her.  But  the 
unconscious  selfishness,  the  irritability,  the 
ipfnorine  of  the  tastes  of  others,  which  she 
had  observed  in  her  future  sonin-law,  did 
not,  in  her  estimation,  augur  well  for  her 
child's  happiness.  When  she  thought  of 
Harold  Atherstone's  long,  unrewarded  devo- 
tion, she  could  scarcely  repress  her  vexation. 
'  What  fools  we  women  are ! '  she  said 
bitterly  to  herself.  'We  trample  on  pearls 
and  gems  of  manhood,   only  to  prize  some 


294  THE  CROOKED  STICK  cnAi'. 

glittcriiiL;  pebble  without  intrinsic  value 
or  beauty.  When,  as  in  my  case,  one  is 
blessed  witli  a  husband  wiio  unites  all  the 
qualities  which  women  love  and  men  respect, 
Fate  steps  in  and  deprives  her  of  him.  How 
little  real  happiness  there  seems  to  be  in  this 
world  of  ours  ! ' 

While  poor  Mrs.  Devereux  thus  bemoaned 
herself  over  the  anomalies  of  life,  the  weeks 
of  the  short  spring  and  early  summer  passed 
quickly  along  the  flowery  track,  which,  even 
in  the  Waste,  is  fair  wiili  wcallh  of  leaf  and 
blossom,  with  joyous  birds  and  tempered 
sunshine,  with  high  hope  and  joy  and 
expectation  of  the  coming  year.  The  season 
had  again  been  favourabk,'.  Wealth  was 
(lowing  into  Corindah  and  the  neighbouring 
stations  after  tin-  abundant  fashion  which, 
during  a  succession  of  gootl  )cars,  obtains  in 
Australia  I  )eserta.  Afl(M-  her  cliild  was 
gone,  Mrs.  Devereux  thought  she  would 
s("ll  out  and  take  Uj)  her  abode  in  luirope  for 
gO(Kl.  After  tasting  the  glories  and  social 
si)lendours  of  the  Old  World,  which  she  would 
fully  appreciate,  I'ollie  would  not  choose  to 
ntin-n    to   Australia.      Mi  ii   sometimes    came 


XI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  295 

back  to  the  land  of  spur  and  snaffle  and  wide- 
acred  freedom,  weary  of  cities  and  the 
artificial  European  life  ;  but  women,  in  her 
experience,  never.  They  had  reached  across 
the  ocean  a  fairy  realm,  where  the  supreme 
social  luxuries  were  purchasable  and  abun- 
dant ;  servants  and  equipages,  households 
and  surroundings,  music  and  the  drama,  art 
and  literature,  society  at  once  congenial  and 
aristocratic,  travel  and  excitement — all  these 
things  were  to  be  had  for  money.  This  they 
possessed.  Why  should  they  return  to  a 
land  where  much  of  this  enticing  catalogue 
did  not  exist,  where  a  tithe  of  civilisation  was 
difficult,  the  rest  impossible  to  obtain  ? 

So  Mrs.  Devereux  sadly  looked  forward 
to  passing  the  close  of  her  days  in  England 
— a  foreign  land,  as  far  as  she  was  concerned 
— far  from  the  home,  the  friends,  the  associa- 
tions of  her  youth,  her  whole  life  indeed,  up 
to  this  stage.  To  her  the  prospect  was 
simply  one  of  exile  and  endurance. 

It  had  been  arranged  that  the  marriage 
was  to  take  place  in  Sydney  early  in 
November.  Mrs.  Devereux  would  go 
thither  with  her  daughter  immediately  after 


296  THE  CROOKED  STICK'  chap. 

that  important  annual  ceremony,  the  shear- 
ing at  Corindah,  was  concluded.  The  good 
lady  preferred  in  a  general  way  to  manage 
lur  own  affairs.  She  signed  her  own 
cheques,  which  during  September  antl 
October  were  like  the  sands  of  the  sea  for 
multitude.  Mr.  Gate  ward  was  economical 
and  loyal.  Still,  it  was  always  worth  while 
to  attend  to  one's  own  business,  she  thought. 
So  that,  although  P)crtrain  had  pleaded  for 
an  earlier  day,  the  month  of  Noxember  was 
fi.xed  for  the  wedding,  principally  on  account 
of  the  said  shearing  and  its  responsibilities — 
which  he  had  come  to  loathe  in  consequence 
as  a  comparatively  trilling,  but  none  the  less 
vexatious,  obstacle. 

So  wlicii  the  Octobrr  mail-sU.'amer  arrived 
he  was  still  at  Corindah,  and  ihiihcr  his  letters 
came.  I  le  happened  to  be  away  on  the  day  of 
arrival,  and  Pollie,  emptying  on  the  hall  table 
the  well-filled  Corindah  mail-ba<r,  sorted  out 
the  different  addressees  to  '  Bertram  Devereux. 
I'^scj.,  Corindah,  W'.umonbah,  New  South 
Wales,  Australia,'  as  was  the  general  super- 
scription of  his  luiropean  letters.  Among 
them      I'ollie     descried     two     letters     in     the 


XI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  297 

feminine  handwritinof  which  she  had  before 
remarked.  One  was  addressed  to  her  lover, 
one  to  herself. 

Yes,  there  could  be  no  mistake.  '  Miss 
Devereux,  Corindah,  Wannonbah,  New  South 
Wales,  Australia.'  It  was  doubtless  from  her 
good,  motherly  cousin  Eleanor,  in  congratula- 
tion. It  was  very  kind  of  her.  She  had  had 
only  just  time  to  write,  too.  Had  the  marriage 
been  in  the  month  of  October  as  Bertram 
wished,  she  would  have  been  too  late. 

So,  with  smiling  eyes  and  unsuspicious 
eagerness  to  behold  the  kindly,  unfamiliar 
lines  from  the  probable  kinswoman,  Pollie 
opened  the  letter.  A  painter  would  have 
seized  the  moment  for  a  priceless  portrait, 
had  he  been  at  hand  to  mark  the  instan- 
taneous changes  of  expression — first  wild 
surprise,  then  horror ;  the  slow,  expressive 
alteration  from  trusting  confidence  and  loving 
hope  to  disappointment  unspeakable,  dismay, 
despair. 

This  was  the  fatal  sheet  upon  which  her 
eyes,  first  flashing  indignant  surprise,  then 
fell  :— 


298  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 


Wynton  IIai.i.,  9///  Aiigiiit  18S-. 

I  should  owe  you  an  apology,  Miss  Dcvcrcux,  for 
thus  addressing  you,  would  the  occasion  admit  of 
unnecessary  courtesy  or  delay.  If  the  lifelong  happi- 
ness or  misery  of  two  women — of  yourself  or  me — be 
sufficient  reason  for  disregarding  ceremony,  you  will 
hold  me  excused,  nay,  bless  me  in  the  future,  whatever 
may  be  the  shock  to  your  present  feelings.  I  have 
accidentally  discovered,  what  before  I  only  surmised, 
that  Bertram  and  yourself  are  about  to  be  married.  I/e 
was  careful  nut  to  give  me  a  hint  of  his  plot — for  such 
I  must  consider  it  to  be.  An  .\ustralian  gentleman,  a 
Mr.  Charteris,  however,  happened  to  be  staying  in  the 
house  where  I  was  visiting,  and  mentioned  that  his 
friend  IJcrtram  Devereux  was  about  to  be  married  to 
the  beautiful  heiress  of  Corindah.  He  had  just  heard 
the  news  from  a  correspondent.  From  what  I  have 
heard  of  your  character,  I  assume  that  you  would  prefer 
to  know  the  truth  at  all  hazards.  Vou  would  not  be 
willing,  as  arc  some  weak  women,  to  i)ar(li)n  in  the  man 
of  your  choice  shameless  falsehood,  base  betrayal,  ami 
broken  vows. 

I  swear  to  you  now,  as  (lod  shall  judge  nie  at  the 
(Ireat  Day,  that  Bertram  Devereux  is  /nine — mine  by 
every  vow,  by  every  tie,  which  can  bind  man  to  woman. 
Whoso  accepts  him,  virtually  takes  another  woman's 
husband  with  her  eyes  o|)en.  As  events  are  shaping 
themselves  1  shall  1)C  shortly  free.  No  legal  obstacle 
lo  his  fulfilment  of  the  promise  which  he  has  a  hundred 
times  made,  will  exist.  Vou  will  wonder  that  I  choose 
to  hold  liim  to  his  bond  after  his  proved  faithlessness. 
May  you    long    be    free   from   the  forbidden   knowledge 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  299 


which  would  enHghten  you  !  That  I  love  him  still  is 
one  proof  more,  were  it  needed,  of  the  wild  inconsistency 
of  a  woman's  heart.  I  have  told  him  of  the  letter  to 
you.  I  fear  him  not ;  nothing  earthly  has  power  to 
daunt  me  now. 

You  are  free  to  take  your  own  course,  but  you  are 
now  warned  against  the  sacrifice  of  your  own  happiness 
and  that  of  the  wretched  and  desperate  woman  who 
calls  herself—  Sybil  de  Wynton. 

Holding  the  letter  in  her  hand,  the  girl 
walked  feebly  and  uncertainly,  like  one  in  a 
dream,  to  her  own  room.  She  saw  through 
the  open  window  a  horseman  riding  across 
the  plain  towards  the  entrance  gate.  A  few 
short  moments  since  she  would  have  flown 
to  meet  him.  Now  all  was  changed.  It 
was  the  loveliest  afternoon.  The  air  was 
warm,  yet  free  from  the  least  excess  of  heat. 
A  sighing  breeze  swept  along  the  course 
of  the  now  full-fed  stream,  and  over  the  vast 
breadth  of  prairie,  waving  with  profuse 
vegetation.  But  '  cloudless  skies  had  lost 
their  power  to  cheer.'  A  wintry  blight  had 
fallen  upon  the  summer  scene,  banished  its 
gladness,  and  turned  the  bright- hued  land- 
scape into  a  scene  of  desolation  and  despair. 

Sweet   love  was   dead.      In    the   heart   of 


30O  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

llu;  iiKiIilcn  was  fixed  an  iiiiinovablc  sense  of 
disaster  —  life -wreck,  woe  unutterable.  So, 
when  the  word  of  doom  is  pronounced  l^y 
the  couch  of  those  near  and  dear,  all  know 
that  no  hope  or  amendment,  no  recovery  or 
reparation  is  possible  for  evermore. 

Such  was  the  fital  effect  in  the  girl's 
mind.  She  had  no  further  thought  or 
speculation  in  the  matter.  Nothing  was 
possible.  All  was  at  an  (zx\(\  between  them. 
Her  life-dream  was  over.  He  had  deceived 
her.  He  had  betrayed  and  had  planned  to 
desert  this  other  W(jmaii.  in  Ikt  innocent 
eyes  it  was  guilt  of  a  blackness  and 
criminality  inconceivable.  All  that  had  gone 
before  was  like  an  evil  dream  of  hairbreadth 
escape  amid  avalanche  and  precipice,  from 
which  the  sleeper  starts,  breathing  gratiuid(! 
for  life  and  safe  awakening. 

She  locked  the  door  of  her  room,  and 
casting  herself  ujjon  the  bed,  'all  her  o'er- 
lad(Mi  heart  gave  way,  and  she  wept  and 
lamented.'  'ihe  evening  brought  a  partial 
calmness.  The  half-  instinctive;  sorrow 
abated  its  poignant  agony  ;  but  a  dull,  iiojje- 
Icss    heartache,    almost    physical,    remained. 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  301 


When  the  bell  rang  for  the  evening  meal 
a  maid-servant  came  to  inquire  if  she  had 
heard  the  summons.  Her  she  despatched 
to  her  mother,  who  soon  appeared  with 
alarm  and  surprise  in  every  line  of  her 
face. 

'  My  darling,  what  has  happened  ? '  she 
exclaimed.  '  Bertram  and  I  were  wondering 
what  kept  you.  He  has  had  such  a  pleasant 
day.' 

'  Has  he  read  his  letters  ? '  demanded  the 
girl,  with  an  air  of  half- veiled  bitterness. 

'  Oh,  no !  he  said  he  should  devote  the 
morning  to  them.  Most  of  them  were  family 
episdes,  he  expected,  of  no  great  conse- 
quence.' 

'  Oh,  mother,  my  heart  is  broken  !  I  shall 
die  ! '  cried  the  girl,  with  sudden  abandonment, 
as  she  threw  her  arms  round  the  elder  woman's 
neck.  '  Read  this,  oh,  mother,  mother ! ' 
Here  she  produced  the  fatal  letter. 

As  Mrs.  Devereux  commenced  to  cast  her 
eyes  over  the  sheet  they  seemed  to  dilate  like 
those  of  one  who  sees  suddenly  an  object  of 
horror  and  loathing.  When  the  end  was 
reached  she   threw  down  the  letter,  as  if  it 


302  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiai-. 

had  been  a  clinging  serpent,  and  made  as 
though  she  would  trample  upon  it. 

'  Let  it  lie  there ! '  she  said,  her  ordinarily- 
serene  countenance  changed  as  the  girl  had 
seldom  seen  it.  '  Not  that  I  have  any  bitter 
feelino:  towards  the  miserable  woman  that  has 
wrought  this  woe  to  us.  No!  my  heart  is 
filled  with  indiirnation  atrainst  the  man  who 
has  acted  so  deceitful,  so  treacherous  a  part, 
who  so  nearly  succeeded  in  ruining  your 
happiness,  my  darling.  That  you  would  have 
been  unhajjpy.  who  can  doul^t  ?' 

'  Unhappy  ! '  cried  the  girl.  'Ill  had  come 
to  the  knowledge  ot  liis  deceit,  his  wicked- 
ness, his  cruelty  in  abandoning  one  to  whom 
he  had  sworn  faith.  I  think  I  shoukl  have 
died ;  all  beliel  in  truth  and  honour  would 
have  deserted  me.  I  should  have  hated  my 
own  existence.' 

'  Let  US  thank  Ciod,  my  darling,  that  our 
eyes  have  been  openeil  in  time,  ere  it  was  too 
lat(;.  I  never  hc-artily  approved  of  the  affair. 
I>ut  Il(,-aven  knows,  though  I  h.id  .i  kind  of 
intuitive  distrust  of  him,  I  ne\(  r  dreamt  of 
anything  like  this.  And  now  1  must  give 
Mary  her  orders.' 


XI  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  303 

'  Oh,  mother,  don't  leave  me.' 

'  I  will  only  tell  her  to  say  that  neither  of 
us  will  be  down,  that  you  are  not  well,  and 
that  I  have  retired  for  the  night.  She  can 
bring  up  a  cup  of  tea,  which  is  all  that  either 
of  us  is  likely  to  need.' 


CIIAPTl-R  XII 

\Viir\  I'crtram  Dcvcrcux,  who  had  waited 
patiently  for  the  chatelaines  appearance,  re- 
ceived the  intimation  that  she  would  not 
appear  again  that  niL;ht.  that  Miss  Pollie 
heini^  indisposed,  he  was  recjuested  to  order 
in  dinner,  he  was  considerahly  astonished. 
He  addressed  himself  mechanicall\-  to  his 
solitary  meal,  but  after  an  absent,  desultory 
fashion  antl  with  less  than  his  ordinary  appe- 
tite 1  Ic  t.iilcd  to  understand  or  account  for 
the  suddt:n  seizure.  She  had  walked  with 
him  to  the  outer  i^ate  in  ihc  mornini;',  had 
j)atted  his  horse's  neck,  apparently  as  well 
and  handsome  as  ever  she  was  in  her  life. 
Why  then  this  astonishini^  chanL;i:  fc^r  th(? 
worse?  TIk;  whole  thing  was  vexatious  and 
disapi)ointing  in  the  last  degree.  lie  would 
go  over  to  the  barracks,  smoke  his  cigar,  and 


CHAP.  XII  THE  CROOKED  STICK  305 

read  his  letters.  A  chat  with  old  Gateward 
would  be  better  than  a  solitary  evening  in 
the  drawing-room. 

Carrying  over  his  mails,  the  young  man 
lit  a  cigar  and  wended  his  way  to  the  barrack- 
room.  Mr.  Gateward  was  out;  the  store- 
keeper was  in  the  store  writing  up  his  accounts ; 
so  he  threw  his  letters  upon  the  large  dining- 
room  table  and  commenced  to  sort  them  with 
a  strongf  sense  of  ill-treatment. 

The  first  that  attracted  his  notice  was  like 
the  one  which  he  had  described  as  a  cousin's 
to  his  unsuspecting  fiancde.  He  opened  it 
hastily  ;  his  brow  clouded  and  his  face  grew 
dark  as  he  commenced  to  devour  rather  than 
read  the  contents.  'Confound  the  woman!' 
he  said  with  a  fierce  oath,  before  he  had  read 
half  a  dozen  lines  ;  '  she  was  born  to  be  my 
ruin,  I  believe,  and  by  — !  she  has  managed 
it  this  time.' 

This  was  her  letter. 

Wynton  Hall,  9//;  August  188-. 

Bertram  Devereux — When  you  learn  that  I  have 
written  by  this  mail  to  Miss  Devereux  explaining  all,  and 
that  she  has  received  my  letter,  your  wrath  will  be  bitter 
against  me.     N'iiiiporte.     I  know  you  as  well,  aye,  better 

X 


3o6  THE  CROOKED  STICK  i  iiai'. 

than  you  know  yourself.  The  wound  to  your  vanity  will 
be  sore,  your  si)irit  will  chafe,  nay,  agonise  for  a  time, 
but  your  ultimate  good  will  result  directly  from  this 
iclaircissemcHt. 

Now  look  me  in  the  face,  mentally,  and  say,  what  is 
this  thing  that  you  have  been  proposing  to  do  ?  To 
marry  an  innocent,  unsophisticated  girl,  partly  for  her 
beauty,  partly  for  her  money  ;  to  desert  and  betray  me, 
who  have  loved  you  long,  truly,  wildly  well ;  and  to  pre- 
tend to  yourself  that  you  were  going  to  be  happy — yes, 
happy  !  ha !  ha ! 

No,  Bertram  Devcreux,  it  is  not  in  you.  Vou  have 
deceived  yourself  as  well  as  her.  ^'ou  would  have 
cheated  me,  but  the  allcmjjt  has  failed.  You  know  in 
your  heart,  or  rather  in  your  inmost  consciousness,  that 
you  are  incapable  of  love,  pure,  unsullied,  constant — 
such  as  the  poets  sing  of;  such  as  this  young  girl,  doubt- 
less, has  brought  to  you.  In  the  maelstrom  of  London 
life,  under  the  spell  of  old  associations,  you  would  have 
fallen  as  you  have  fallen  before,  and  dragged  others  with 
you.  In  that  hour  I  am  the  only  one  who  has  power 
over  you.  Is  it  not  so?  And  my  hand  withdrawn  from 
the  helm,  your  bark  and  its  inmates  would  have  gone 
down  into  depths  unfathomable.  Angel  or  demon,  I, 
and  I  alone,  am  (lualified  to  act  as  your  guardian.  Elude 
my  power,  and  you  are  lost,  irrevocably  and  eternally. 

I  see  from  the  papers  that  old  ^\'alter  Devcreux  is 
dead,  and  has  left  you  an  income,  which,  though  not 
large,  ought  to  sufTice  for  your  reasonable  needs.  So 
Like  my  advice  once  more;  soyez  bon  cnfnnt ;  (juit  the 
wild  country  of  your  banishment ;  make  your  adieux  with 
the  best  grace  you  may  to  these  Arcadian  relatives  ;  and 


XII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  307 

return  to  a  society  where  you  have  been  missed — strange 
to  say — and  to  a  civiUsed  Hfe  amid  people  that  under- 
stand you.  Among  those  who  are  ready  to  welcome  the 
returned  wanderer  will  most  likely  be  your  true  friend 
as  of  yoie,  Sybil  de  Wynton. 

He  went  patiently  through  his  letters 
after  reading  this  one,  with  a  countenance 
which  gave  but  little  clue  to  the  nature  of 
the  communications.  One  business-appear- 
ing epistle  in  round,  legal  handwriting  he 
put  aside  and  re-read.  He  then  lighted  a 
fresh  cigar,  and  for  nearly  an  hour  remained 
in  deep  meditation  before  he  sought  his 
room.  There  he  employed  a  portion  of  the 
night  in  arranging  his  effects,  so  as  to  be 
ready  for  that  departure  on  the  morrow  upon 
which  he  had  determined. 

Mrs.  Devereux  did  not  appear  at  the 
breakfast  table,  but  as  he  walked  to  and  fro 
along  the  lagoon  path,  smoking  the  matutinal 
cigar,  he  saw  her  come  into  the  garden.  He 
threw  down  his  cigar,  and  at  once  went  to 
meet  her. 

She  stopped  a  few  paces  ere  she  came  to 
him,  and  looking  at  him  with  a  sad,  reproach- 
ful gaze,  said,  '  Oh,  Bertram,  what  is  this  you 


3o8  THE  CROOKED  S'//CA'  chap. 

have  done  to  us  ?      Did   \vc  deserve  this  at 
your  hands  ? ' 

'  My  dearest  Aunt  Mary,'  he  said,  ad- 
vancincr  and  taking  her  hand  with  a  show  of 
natural  feehnor  which  she  could  not  resent, 
'  I  cannot  justify  myself  wholly,  but  it  is  due 
to  me  that  I  should  be  permitted  to  explain. 
All  is  over,  I  know,  between  your  daughter 
and  myself;  still  I  do  not  wish  her  to  think 
worse  of  me  than  is  needful.  When  I  won 
her  love  I  pledged  my  word  to  her  in  good 
faith  and  sincerity  to  do  all  that  a  man  might 
to  promote  her  happiness.  Whether  I  should 
ha\(;  kept  that  resolution  God  knows,  but  I 
should  have  given  my  whole  being  to  the 
task. 

'  l)y  a  fatal  mischance  she  has  been  made 
acquainted  with  a  dark  chapter  in  my  lile. 
I  do  not  excuse  it,  but  it  is  such  as  many 
men  who  show  fiirU'  before  the  world  keep 
locked  away  in  secret  cabinets.  No  doubt  1 
deceived  PoUie  in  denying  the  existence  of 
former  passages  of  so  compromising  a  nature  ; 
but  I  thought  myself  justified  in  kee[)ing  the 
whole  thing  from  her  pure  mind.  I  think  so 
still.      Antl  now,'  he  said,  with  .i  return  to  his 


XII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  309 

old  charm  of  manner,  '  I  fear  that  nothing 
remains  but  to  thank  you  fervently  for  the 
kindness  with  which  you  have  always  treated 
me,  in  sickness  and  in  health.  I  owe  my 
life  to  your  tender  nursing.  Corlndah  will 
be  amongst  my  purest,  happiest  memories  to 
my  life's  end.' 

By  this  time  they  had  reached  the  house. 
Entering  the  old  dining-room,  Bertram  threw 
himself  into  a  chair,  and  Mrs.  Devereux  took 
her  seat  near  him. 

'  No  words  can  describe,  Bertram,'  said 
Mrs.  Devereux,  with  softened  air,  '  how 
grieved  I  feel  that  we  should  part  in  this 
manner,  I  have  always  looked  upon  you  as 
a  near  relative ;  latterly  I  have  regarded 
you  as  a  son.  It  is  unspeakably  sad  to  me 
to  think  that  all  Is  over — that  henceforth  we 
must  be  as  complete  strangers,  as  If  we  had 
never  met.' 

'  And  how  little  I  thought  yesterday  that 
this  would  be  my  last  day  at  Corlndah ! '  he 
said  half  musingly.  '  And  yet  it  Is  best  so. 
As  If  In  mockery  of  my  position,  I  have  just 
been  left  an  Income  by  an  old  grand-uncle 
which  will  enable  me  to  return  to  Eneland 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


and  more  or  less  take  my  iormer  place  in 
society.' 

'  I  am  sincerely  glad  for  your  sake,'  she 
said  warmly,  'and  I  know  Pollie  will  be  so 
also.  We  could  not  have  borne  that  you 
should  leave  Corindah  to  go  we  knew  not 
where.  Now  we  shall  have  no  fear  on  that 
score.' 

'  1  should  like  to  see  her  once  before  we 
part  for  ever,  if  you  would  consent,'  he  said 
pleadingly — '  if  it  were  but  to  hear  her  say 
that  she  forgives  me.' 

'No,  Bertram!'  said  the  matron  hrmly,  if 
sorrowful!)-.  '  Such  a  meeting  would  answer 
no  good  vA\<\.  You  have  had  forgiveness. 
She  will  never  harbour  a  bitter  thought, 
believe  hk,-.  She  has  overcome  her  first 
natural  feeling  of  re.sentment,  such  as  any 
woman  would  fe(;l  who  had  been  deceived 
b)-  llie  man  she  lo\-ed.  luil  she  will  grieve 
over  th(!  circumstances  which  led  to  your 
estrangement  ;  she  will  pity  and  forgive  one 
so  near  her  heart  as  you  have  been." 

'Il  1  may  not  see  her,  will  you  let  her 
read  a  farewell  letter  which  I  will  lea\('  with 
you  .■'     Surely  it  is  not  necessary  to  debar  me 


OR  POLLTE'S  PROBA  TION 


from  the  humblest  felon's  privilege — that  of 
defence  before  condemnation.' 

'  She  shall  have  your  letter.  I  have  no 
intention  of  being  in  the  least  degree  harsh, 
Bertram,  but  it  is  by  her  own  wish  that  I 
decline  an  interview.  Our  paths  will  hence- 
forth lie  separate.  We  shall  pray  for  your 
welfare.  You  have  a  powerful  will.  Oh, 
may  God  guide  you  to  use  it  aright !  Your 
welfare  will  always  concern  us  ;  but  in  this 
world  we  shall  meet  no  more.  And  now 
farewell !  May  God  bless  and  keep  you,  and 
forgive  you  even  as  you  are  forgiven  by  me 
and  my  poor  child  ! ' 

He  wrung  the  kindly,  high-souled  matron's 
hand  in  silence.  An  unwonted  glistening  in 
his  dark  eyes  showed  the  depth  to  which  his 
feelings  were  stirred,  and  if  there  ever  was  a 
moment  in  which  Bertram  Devereux  truly 
repented  of  the  sins  of  the  past  and  vowed 
amendment  of  life  in  the  future,  that  was  the 
hour  and  the  minute. 

It  was  shortly  after  this  interview  that  he 
held  a  colloquy  with  Mr.  Gate  ward,  and  rode 
over  to  Wannonbah,  with  a  black  boy  behind 
him,   who  duly  led    back   Guardsman.      He 


312  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

had  apparently  arranged  for  the  transmis- 
sion of  his  kiggage,  inasmuch  as  the  port- 
manteaux, three  in  number,  were  taken  on  by 
the  coach  when  that  indispensable  vehicle 
arrived  in  due  course.  Next  morning  it 
was  announced  by  Mr.  Gateward  to  the 
storekeeper  and  other  employees  of  the 
station  generally  that  Mr.  Devereux  had 
been  left  a  fortune,  which  he  had  to  go 
'home'  to  claim,  owing  to  law  matters  and 
other  details  not  comprehensible  by  ordinary 
intelligence. 

'  He'll  be  back  afore  next  shearing,'  quoth 
one  of  the  boundary  riders.  '  Leastways  I 
know  I  should  if  I  was  in  his  place.' 

'He'll  be  back,'  replied  I\Ir.  Gateward 
oracularly,  with  an  expression  of  countenance 
at  once  severe  and  imjienetrable,  '  when  he 
docs  come  back.  If  he  shouldn't  turn  up  at 
all,  I  don't  kiKjw  as  it's  any  business  of  ours. 
There's  as  good  men  left  l)chind,  and  would 
be  if  there  were  a  dozen  like  him  off  by  liie 
next  mail-steamer.' 

Those  who  an-  of  opinion  ih.ii  |)r()\in(:ial 
gossip,  along  wilh  all  olhcr  Iliiiish    tradition- 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION 


ary  institutions,  is  not  faithfully  reproduced 
in  British  colonies,  underrate  the  vivacious 
ardour  of  bush  society  when  presented  with 
a  brand-new  topic.  No  sooner  was  it 
definitely  announced  that  Mr.  Devereux  had 
been  seen  on  his  way  to  the  metropolis,  en 
route  to  England,  with  all  his  portmanteaux — 
the  same  with  which  he  had  arrived — than  a 
perfect  flood  of  conjecture  and  assertion  arose. 

'  He  had  come  into  a  title  and  a  fortune. 
Of  course  he  was  not  going  to  marry  in  the 
colonies  now,  so  he  broke  off  his  engagement 
at  once.' 

'  It  was  Pollie's  temper — nothing  else — 
that  did  it ;  everybody  knew  how  ungovern- 
able that  was.  He  couldn't  stand  it  any 
lonp-er,  thouQ:h  Mrs.  Devereux  went  down 
on  her  knees  to  him.' 

'  He  wanted  Mrs.  D.  to  settle  twenty  thou- 
sand on  Polly  on  her  wedding-day,  which 
she  refused  to  do.      He  declared  off  at  once.' 

'  Pollie  flirted  so  with  that  Mr.  Ather- 
stone ;  no  man  could  stand  it.  He  found 
them  walking  by  moonlight  or  something, 
and  gave  her  notice  at  once.'  '  Mr.  Ather- 
stone  was   in   Queensland.'      'Oh,   was  he  .'^ 


314  THE  CROOKED  STICK  ciiAr. 

Then  it  was  sonic  one  else.  It  came  to  the 
same  thing.' 

Finally  the  torrent  of  popular  criticism 
subsided,  to  settle  down  into  a  trickling  rill 
of  authentic  information.  Ii  ran  to  the  effect 
that  Bertram  Devereux  had  been  bequeathed 
money  by  a  relative,  and  hatl  for  some  reason 
or  other  left  suddenly  for  England. 

li  was  neither  the  next  day  nor  the  next 
week  after  Bertram's  departure  that  Pollie  re- 
appeared in  her  accustomed  place,  to  lead  her 
old  life  at  Corindah.  A  weary  time  of  illness 
supervened,  and  when  the  girl  crept  down  to 
the  drawing-room  sofa  to  be  shawled,  and 
nursed,  and  petted  for  being  graciously 
pleased  to  be  better,  she  was  but  the  shadow 
of  her  former  self  As  marked  a  mental 
change;  had  apparently  tak(!n  place,  for  she 
was  mild  and  paticiu,  pitcously  subdued  in 
tone  and  bearing.  llow  dith'rciit  from  the 
wilful  spoilt  beauty  who  had  turned  so  many 
heads,  and  who  paid  so  liille  heed  to  good 
advice! 

'  You  will  have  .i  better  tlaughter  in  the 
tim(;  to  come,  mother,'  she  said,  as  she  clasped 
the  matron's  neck  with  arms  that  were  sadly 


XII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  315 

shrunken  from  their  former  lovely  roundness. 
'  I  have  had  time  to  think  over  my  past  folly, 
to  know  who  are  my  truest  friends;'  and  then 
both  wept  and  embraced  each  other,  as  is  the 
way  of  women — the  mother  thankful  to 
Heaven  for  the  recovery  of  her  child,  the  child 
softened  by  suffering  and  chastened  by  the 
near  approach  of  the  Death  Angel. 

Harold  Atherstone  had  been  far  away  in 
Northern  Queensland  during  this  eventful 
time.  He  had  apparently  needed  stronger 
excitement  than  the  everyday  life  of  a 
prosperous,  long-settled  station  ;  so  he  had 
elected  to  report  upon  an  immense  tract  of 
country  west  of  the  '  Red  Barcoo,'  which, 
taken  up  by  a  pioneer  squatter  some  years 
back,  had  passed  into  the  hands  of  a  syndicate, 
of  which  he  was  a  shareholder. 

So,  from  one  cause  or  another,  it  fell  out 
that  Corindah  seemed  to  be  more  solitary, 
not  to  say  monotoned,  than  it  had  ever  been 
before.  The  visitors  who  came  were  of  the 
occasional,  transitory  sort;  all  their  old  friends 
seemed  to  have  mysteriously  vanished.  The 
Rev.  Cyril  Courtenay  was  the  only  one  of 
their  habit iids  who  did  not  fail   them.       He 


3i6  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

made  his  monthly  visitation,  when,  indeed, 
Mrs.  Devereu.x  was  more  than  usually  i^lad 
to  see  him. 

He  was  sympathetic  in  his  manner,  as 
(livininpf  that  something  unusual  had  affected 
his  friends.  Willi  tact,  as  well  as  sincerity, 
Ik;  drew  forth  an  admission  of  grief.  This 
done,  he  essayed  to  lead  tlu;ir  thoughts  to  the 
Healer  of  all  mortal  sorrow,  the  Hearer  of 
burdens,  the  Consoler  in  time  of  trouble. 
He  dwelt  u[)on  the  unsatisfactory  nature  of 
all  earthly  pleasures,  the  disappointment 
inseparabi)-  connected  with  mere  worldly 
aspirations,  the  only  sure;  ho[)(;  of  forgiveness 
of  sins,  the  need  of  repentance,  the  certainty 
of  peace. 

As  at  the  time  of  pain  and  anguish,  of  fear 
and  danger,  the  physician  attains  a  status 
which  in  the  heedle.ss  hours  of  health  is  wlth- 
hcKl,  so,  in  the  hour  of  the  miiul's  sicknc^ss, 
the  physician  ol  souls  is  welcomed  and 
revered.  Urged  to  lengthen  his  stay,  the 
Rev.  Cyril  gladly  consented  to  remain  over 
the  ensuing  Sunday.  His  ministrations,  he 
thought,  had  never  been  so  appreciated 
befont  at  Coriiidah.      And    when   he  (jiiitted 


XII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  317 

the  locality  his  heart  beat  high  with  the 
consciousness  that  he  had  aided  the  consola- 
tion of  the  dearest  friends  and  best  supporters 
of  the  Church  in  sicco,  while  a  yet  more 
daring  thought  caused  his  colourless  cheek  to 
burn  and  his  pulses  to  throb  with  unwonted 
speed. 

The  summer  days  grew  longer  and  longer. 
The  fever  heat  of  the  season  waxed  more  and 
more  intense.  The  still  air  grew  tremulous 
with  the  quivering,  ardent  sun-rays.  Yet  no 
suggestion  was  made  by  Pollie  to  go  to  the 
sea-side  or  to  call  the  ocean  breezes  to  aid 
her  recovered  health.  Her  mother  would 
have  rushed  off  directly  the  great  event  of 
the  year  was  over,  but  the  girl  would  not 
hear  of  it. 

*  No,  mother  dear,'  she  said,  *  I  have 
sinned  and  suffered.  I  have  been  wilful  and 
headstrong.  Let  me  remain  and  mortify  the 
flesh  for  a  season.  You  do  not  mind  the 
heat,  I  know,  and  I  am  strong  enough  now 
to  bear  it  in  the  dear  old  place  where  I  was 
born.  We  may  have  many  a  year  to  live 
here  together  yet,  and  I  may  as  well  commence 
to  accustom  myself  to  it.' 


3iS  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chai>. 

So  the  two  women  laid  their  account  to 
remain  patiently  at  home  till  the  following 
summer,  and  Pollie  set  resolutely  to  work  to 
utilise  all  her  resources,  natural  and  acquired. 
She  commenced  to  be  more  methodical  in 
the  appointment  of  her  time.  She  rose  early 
and  took  exercise  in  the  fresh  morning  air, 
before  the  sun  had  gained  power — the  truest 
hygienic  rule  in  the  torrid  zone.  She  read 
and  did  needlework  at  appointed  hours,  and 
resolutely  set  herself  to  perfect  her  knowledge 
of  rVench  and  (icrman.  She  'kept  up'  her 
music,  vocal  and  instrumental,  though  it  was 
lonof  ere  her  voice  recovered  from  a  certain 
tremulous  tendency,  far  different  from  the 
rich,  full  tones  soaring  upwards  like  the  sky- 
lark to  perilous  ahitudcs  unharnu-d.  She 
njde  regularly,  or  drove  her  mother  out  in 
the  liLdit  American  carriaf^cs  which  no  station 
is  now  without.  She  visited  the  wi\es  and 
children  of  the  employees,  showing  a  more 
considerate  and  iniclligent  interest  in  their 
welfare  than  had  been  before  observable. 

'  Mother,'  saitl  the  girl,  as  they  sal  to- 
gether on  the  xcraiidah  in  the  waning 
summer-time,    when   a  south    wind   sj)eeding 


XII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  319 

from  the  coast  had  unexpectedly  cooled  the 
air,  '  I  won't  say  that  I  was  never  so  happy 
before  ;  but  I  don't  think  I  ever  was  so  fully 
occupied.  There  is,  no  doubt,  a  sense  of 
relief  and  satisfaction  to  be  gained  when  one 
does  what  one  can ;  I  never  thought  I  should 
feel  like  this  again,' 

'  Let  us  have  faith  and  patience,  my 
darling,'  said  the  mother,  looking  into  her 
child's  eyes  with  the  measureless  fondness  of 
earlier  days,  '  and  happiness  will  still  come  to 
us.  Only  persevere  in  the  duties  that  lie 
nearest  to  you.  In  His  own  good  time  God 
will  reward  and  bless  you.  After  all,  there 
are  many  good  things  in  this  life  yet 
remaining.' 

It  was  the  late  autumn  when  Harold 
Atherstone  returned  from  his  far,  wild  jour- 
neyings.  A  long-practised  and  trained  bush- 
man  'to  the  manner  born,'  he  was  familiar 
with  all  the  exigencies  of  the  wildest  wood- 
craft. But  from  his  appearance  this  expedi- 
tion had  been  no  child's  play.  Tanned  and 
swart,  almost  to  Indian  darkness,  both 
mother  and  daughter  gazed  at  him  in 
astonishment.       He    had    been    down    with 


320  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

fever  and  ague,  and  was  haggard  and  worn 
of  aspect.  He  had  even  had  a  l)rush  with 
the  blacks,  he  said,  on  one  of  the  far  out- 
stations,  and  had  managed  to  drop  in  for  a 
spear  wound.  I  le  was  becoming  quite  a 
scarred  veteran,  he  averred.  However, 
save  for  a  cicatri.x:  to  mark  the  trilling 
occurrence,  he  was  unharmed.  Altogether, 
though  he  iiad  enjoyed  the  cliances  and 
adventures  of  his  pioneer  life,  he  was  very 
glad  to  fnid  himself  within  hail  of  Corindah 
again. 

'  And  we  are  so  glad  to  have  our  old 
Harold  back,  I  can  tell  you,'  said  I\Irs. 
Devercux.  'We  missed  him  tlrcadfully  all 
the  summer,  didn't  we,  Pollie?  To  be  ill, 
and  weak,  and  lonely  at  the  sanie  time,  is 
hard  to  bear.' 

Pollie  made  an  inaudible  reply  to  her 
niother's  query,  but  as  her  eyes  rested  upon 
the  bronzed,  athletic  frame,  and  met  the  frank 
gaze  of  the  Australian,  it  ma)-  bt:  that  a 
comparison,  not  wholly  to  his  disadvantage, 
passed  through  her  mind. 

'  It  is  the:  fu'st  time  when  there  was  trouble 
at  Corindah  that  1  have  been  absent,  1  think,' 


OR  POLLIE\S  PROBATION 


he  said  gently.  '  You  must  manage  to  have 
me  more  available  in  future.' 

'  What  reason  is  there  for  your  risking 
your  life  in  that  terrible  Never  Never 
country?'  said  Mrs.  Devereux.  'It  is  not 
as  if  you  needed  to  make  any  more  money, 
or  had  no  one  to  care  for  you.' 

*  One  must  do  something  with  one's  life,' 
he  said  simply.  '  I  don't  know  that  it  greatly 
mattered  if  that  Myall's  spear  had  gone 
through  me,  as  it  did  through  poor  William- 
son. I  had  got  very  tired  of  an  easy  life  at 
Maroobil.  I  needed  a  strong  change,  and  I 
got  it,  I  must  say.' 

'  It's  positively  wicked  to  talk  in  that  way,' 
said  his  hostess.  '  However,  now  you  have 
come  back,  your  friends  must  take  care  of 
you  and  keep  you  among  them.  You  look 
dreadfully  thin  ;  but  I  suppose  you're  not  ill, 
are  you?'  And  then  the  kind  creature  looked 
at  him  with  the  same  anxiety  in  her  face  that 
he  remembered  so  well  when  he  was  a  boy, 
over  whose  accidents  and  offences  she  had 
always  mourned  maternally. 

'  If  It  comes  to  that,  it  seems  to  me  that 
no  one  looks  very  pink,'  he  returned  play- 


THE  CROOKED  STICK 


fully.  '  Pollie's  not  what  she  used  to  be. 
You  look  as  if  you  had  gone  through  another 
night  attack.  And  Bertram  Devereux  has 
gone  home.'*  What  lias  happened?  I  feel 
abroad.' 

'  You  are  going  to  stay  to-night,  and  your 
old  room  is  ready  for  you,  of  course,'  Mrs. 
Devereux  answered.  '  Do  not  allude  to  it 
when  Pollie  comes  down.  (This  young  lady 
had  retired  temporarily  to  her  room.)  I  will 
tell  you  all  about  it  after  tea.' 

Harold  Atherstone  looked  searchingly  at 
her,  but  held  his  peace.  In  a  minute  after- 
wards Pollie  appeared,  looking,  in  spite  of  her 
illness,  so  delicately  lovely  and  overpowering, 
after  his  long  sojourn  in  the;  desert,  that  all 
d(jubts  and  conjectures  wc:re  put  to  (light  or 
lost  in  the  regained  pleasure  of  seeing  her 
smile  of  welcome  and  hearing  the  wrll- 
remembered  tones  of  her  voice. 

It  was  a  happy  evening.  Apart  from 
'  love  and  love's  sharp  woe '  there  is  such  a 
thing  as  friendship,  purt;  and  unalloyed, 
between  people  of  differing  sexes.  The 
.sentiment  of  these  fricMuls  was  deep  and 
sincen- — founded   upon   sym|)athy,   congenial 


XII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBA  TION  323 

tasks,  and  the  long  experience  of  mutual 
truth,  loyalty,  and  affection.  They  were 
honestly  glad  to  see  each  other  again.  Love 
temporarily  divides  friends,  and,  as  it  were, 
elbows  out  all  other  claimants.  But  as  its 
fervour  declines,  the  purer  flame  burns  with 
a  deeper  glow.  As  the  years  advance,  the 
fires  of  passion  wax  dim  ;  the  altar  reared 
to  friendship  regains  its  votaries  ;  while  the 
more  ornate  and  ephemeral  edifice  is  too 
often  deserted,  empty,  and  ungarnished. 

Thus,  at  their  pleasant  evening  meal, 
all  was  mirthful  interchange  of  news  and 
adventures  since  last  the  little  party  had  met. 
Harold's  favourite  wine  of  the  remembered 
brand  was  brought  out  as  of  old  ;  then  Pollie 
was  persuaded  to  sing  some  of  her  oldest  songs, 
while  Mrs.  Devereux  and  their  guest  talked 
confidentially  in  the  verandah.  It  seemed 
as  if  the  happy  old  Corindah  days  had  come 
again,  when  no  malign  influence  intervened  ; 
when,  in  Mrs.  Devereux's  eyes,  all  things 
were  peacefully  tending  towards  the  cherished 
aspiration  of  her  life.  Finally,  when  the 
parting  hour — later  than  usual — arrived,  each 
secretly  confessed   to  a  sensation  so  nearly 


324  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

akin  to  the  joy  long  since  departed  from 
their  lives,  that  not  only  wonder  but  even  a 
soupgon  of  hope  was  commingled  with  its 
formation. 

Harold  Atherstone  had  been  placed  fully 
in  possession  of  facts  by  ]\Irs.  Devereux,  as 
they  sat  on  the  verandah  in  the  hushed 
southern  night,  while  Pollie's  sweet  voice 
trilled  nightingale-like  through  the  odorous 
breath  of  the  rose  and  the  orange  bloom. 
He  heard  how  she  had  been  deceived, 
wounded  in  her  tenderest  feelings,  and  was 
now  deserted  and  left  desolate.  When  he 
thought  of  her  lying  wearily  on  a  bed  of 
sickness,  wan  and  wasted,  heart-sore  and 
despairing,  he  could  not  repress  a  malediction 
upon  the  head  of  the  man  who  had  received 
such  unstinted  kindness  at  ihc  hands  of  the 
speaker,  and  had  thus  repaid  il. 

When  the  tale  was  fmished  he  took  her 
hand  and  pressed  it  silently.  '  The  poor 
child  has  suffered  deeply,'  he  said;  'but 
matters  are  best  as  they  art;.  Who  knows 
but  that  deeper,  more  irrevocable  misery 
might  have  been  \wr  lot  had  she  not  been 
warned  in  time  .'*      1    mourn   over  the  change 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  325 


in  her,  but  she  is  returning  to  her  old  ways, 
and  the  memory  of  her  sorrow  will  become 
yet  more  faint.  Her  youth  and  pride,  with 
the  resources  at  her  command,  will  enable 
her  to  divest  herself  of  all  trace  of  what  was 
one  of  the  inevitable  mistakes  of  youth.' 

'  You  think  then  that  she  acted  rightly  in 
refusing  to  see  him  again  .^ ' 

'  Unquestionably ;  no  other  course  was 
possible.  I  never  thought  him  worthy  of 
her.  But  he  was  her  choice,  and  as  a  man 
of  honour  I  could  not  disparage  him,  even 
had  I  any  other  grounds  than  those  of  mere 
taste  and  prejudice,  which  I  had  not.  The 
event  has  proved  that  my  instinctive  distrust 
was  correct.  I  need  not  tell  you  how  I 
rejoice  that  she  is  again  free  and  unfettered.' 

He  said  no  more.  The  summer  had 
passed.  The  nights  became  longer,  colder. 
The  calm,  peaceful,  autumnal  season,  which 
in  this  south  land  brings  no  fall  of  the  leaf, 
commenced  to  herald  the  mild  but  well- 
marked  winter  of  the  plains.  It  was  the 
Indian  summer  of  their  old,  peaceful  Corindah 
life.  They  rode,  and  walked,  and  drove 
together,   the  three  friends,  much  as  in  the 


3=6  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

old  days  before  the  advent  of  the  disturbin"; 
stranger  from  beyond  the  sea.  Then  Harold 
Atherstone  had  been  the  favourite  companion 
of  the  girl,  the  trusted  friend  and  counsellor 
of  the  elder  woman.  The  bon  z'ietix  temps 
had  returned.  Once  more  the  heavens  were 
bright,  and  the  storm-cloud  had  disappeared 
with  the  tempest  which  had  so  nearly  wrecked 
the  frail  bark  of  a  woman's  happiness. 

And  yet  both  were  changed.  The  girl, 
mild  and  pensive,  was  almost  humble  in 
mien.  .All  her  wilfulness  and  obstinacy 
had  departed.  A  deeper,  more  reasoning 
spirit  of  advance  and  inquiry  seemed  to 
possess  her,  to  mould  her  every  action  and 
thought.  He,  on  the  other  hand,  had  ac- 
quired broader  views  of  life,  and  had 
seriously  modified  many  of  his  earlier 
opinions. 

But  their  parting  was  near.  Harold  re- 
ceived a  telegram,  without  warning  or  notice, 
which  necessitated  instant  action.  His 
presence  was  again  required  al  ilu:  far  North, 
where  everything  was  going  on  as  badly  as 
could  be  imagined.  The  chief  manager  lay 
dying  ol   lever,  the  blacks  were   iroublesoine. 


XII  OR  FOLLIE'S  PROBATION  327 

and  becoming  emboldened,  had  commenced 
to  scatter  off  the  cattle.  To  mend  matters, 
a  drought  of  unprecedented  severity  had  set 
in.  'If  Mr.  Atherstone  did  not  go  out,' 
the  telegram  stated,  *  the  whole  enterprise 
might  be  wrecked,  and  ruinous  loss  accrue 
to  shareholders.' 

At  first  he  rebelled,  swore  stoutly,  indeed, 
that  he  would  not  go.  He  would  let  things 
take  their  course.  He  was  happy  where  he 
was,  and  there  was  no  reason  why  he  should 
risk  his  life  and  tempt  again  the  dangers  of 
the  Waste.  However,  cooler  reflection  de- 
cided him  to  take  the  field  as  a  duty  to  his 
comrades  in  the  enterprise,  as  well  as  to  the 
shareholders,  who  had  risked  their  money 
perhaps  on  the  guarantee  of  his  known  judg- 
ment and  reputation  for  management. 

He  made  his  preparations  quickly,  as  was 
his  wont,  bade  farewell  to  Corindah  and  its 
inmates,  and  set  off  on  the  long,  hazardous 
journey. 

Soniehow  Corindah  seemed  more  lonely 
than  ever.  He  had  been  very  kind  and 
thoughtful  as  a  brother,  but  no  word  of 
warmer    admiration    had     passed     his    lips. 


328  THE  CROOKED  ST/Ck'  chap. 

Pollie  pursued  her  tasks  and  occupations 
with  accustomed  regularity,  but  was  more 
unequal  in  her  spirits  than  ever.  One  day 
her  mother  surprised  her  in  tears.  A  letter 
had  been  received  from  Harold,  and  the 
tone  of  it  had  aroused  her  from  habitual 
indifferentism. 

'  Why  is  he  always  so  studiously  cool  and 
brotherly  ? '  she  said,  with  something  of  her 
old  impetuosity.  '  Does  he  think  that  1  am 
likely  to  misconstrue  his  feelings?  That  he 
requires  to  keep  a  guard  over  his  expres- 
sions }  But  I  know  how  it  is.  He  has  met 
some  one  else  in  that  far  country.  I  le  spoke 
of  some  English  families  settled  there.  I 
have  lost  his  love,  which  once  was  so  truly 
mine.  I  despised  it  then.  Now  1  am 
rightly  punished  by  coiitt-mpt  and  de- 
sertifMi.' 

Mrs.  Devereu.x  gained  from  this  little 
speech  a  fresh  and  accurate  insight  into  the 
state  of  her  daughter's  heart.  li  went  lo 
confirm  the  suspicion  whith  she  had  lalc;lv 
cntcrlaiiicd  that  the  recent  t:()nii)ani()nsliip  ol 
llarold  Atherstone,  the  daily  e.xjjerience  of 
his  strong,  true  character,  had  not  becjii  with- 


XII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  329 

out  its  effect.  He  had  come  most  opportunely 
to  cheer  their  loneHness,  His  manner  had 
somewhat  altered,  too,  of  late,  they  had  re- 
marked ;  had  become  more  gay  and  care- 
lessly mirthful,  more  easy  and  conventional. 
His  travels  and  adventures  had  supplied  him 
with  a  larger  field  of  observation,  had  added 
to  his  conversational  powers,  or  else  he  had 
exerted  himself  exceptionally  for  their  enter- 
tainment. 

His  sense  of  humour  seemed  to  have  de- 
veloped, and  withal  there  were  occasional 
touches  of  tenderness  and  deep  feeling 
which,  always  latent,  had  been  rarely  ex- 
hibited. Both  women  confessed  that  they 
had  never  done  justice  to  the  versatile  force 
of  his  character  ;  never  had  they  dreamed  he 
could  exert  fascination  in  addition  to  his 
power  of  compelling  respect. 

And  now  he  was  gone  thousands  of 
miles  away^ — the  true  friend,  the  gallant 
gentleman,  the  loyal  lover— to  brave  the  risks 
of  the  Waste,  perhaps  die  there,  as  had  done 
many  a  brave  man  before  him  ;  perhaps  to 
be  attracted  by  some  newer,  fresher  face, 
never  to  return  to  his  old  allegiance.     The 


330  THE  CROOKRD  STICK  chap. 

thought  was  bitter.      No  wonder  that  PolHe's 
tears  flowed  fast. 

Harold  Atherstone  had  exhibited  his 
habitual  self-control  in  quitting  Corindah  for  a 
long  absence  without  making  sign  or  giving 
expression  to  his  feelings.  He  had  carefully- 
considered  the  situation,  had  come  to  certain 
conclusions,  had  decided  upon  his  course  of 
action.  His  feelings  were  unchanged  with 
respect  to  Pollie.  It  had  been  hard  to  bear, 
almost  uncndurably  torturiiiL^,  to  know  that 
she  preferred  another  ;  to  witness  her  bright 
glances  and  hear  her  t(jnder  tones  directed 
towards  one  whom  in  his  heart  he  deemed 
unworthy  of  her.  In  his  chivalric  gener- 
osity he  felt  this  to  \)(\  the  crowning  bitter- 
ness of  th(i  whole.  Unable*  to  bear  it  longer, 
he  elected  to  join  this  dangerous  enterprise, 
reckless  of  life  and  health,  hoping  only  foi 
'  surcease  of  sorrow  '  in  peril  and  privation. 

But  on  his  return  he  found  that  the  en- 
chanted portal  had  been  opened,  the  captive 
princess  liberated.  The  glamour  had  fallen" 
from  her  eyes,  '\\\v  magic  f(jtters  had  been 
unloo.sed.  \\v.  could  picture  the  scorn  and 
indignation    wiih    which    she    had    renounced 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION 


Bertram  Devereux  for  ever.  From  his  life- 
long knowledge  of  her  character  he  believed 
that  she  had  freed  herself  from  the  memory 
of  his  treason  as  from  something  foul  and 
revolting  ;  that  it  had  fallen  from  her  pure 
soul  as  earth  from  a  golden  robe  ;  that  she 
had  returned  instinctively  to  the  simple 
loyalty  and  freedom  of  her  youth.  From 
his  experience  of  life  and  woman's  nature  he 
foresaw  that  she  would  turn  to  him  as  to  one 
of  the  lost  ideals  of  her  girlhood,  if  only  he 
were  not  precipitate  and  premature.  These 
were  not  the  faults  with  which  men  charged 
Harold  Atherstone.  So  he  returned  silent 
and  self-contained  to  the  far  North. 

His  unswerving  courage  and  iron  w^ill 
stood  him  in  good  stead  in  this  supreme 
hazard. 

When  Harold  returned  from  the  far 
country,  his  friends  at  Corindah  were  un- 
affectedly glad  to  see  him.  Pollie  especially 
was  so  radiant  in  renewed  health  and  beauty 
that  he  felt  irresistibly  impelled  to  ask  the 
momentous  question. 

He  chose  an  appropriate  time  and  place 
— one   of    the    star-bright,    cloudless    nights 


332  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

which  in  the  southern  hemisphere  so  glorify 
the  majestic  soHtude  of  nature.  Low-toned 
and  musical  was  the  whispering  breeze 
which,  stealing  over  the  'lone  Chorasmian 
waste,'  stirred  the  slumbering  lemon  sprays 
and  murmured  to  the  love-fraught  roses  as 
they  walked  by  the  margin  of  the  lakelet,  all 
silver-bright  in  the  wondrous  transparent 
atmosphere.  It  seemed  as  though,  after  the 
rude  experiences  of  his  desert  life,  he  had  re- 
entered paradise.  He  was  so  delighted  to 
return,  so  charmed  with  the  warm  welcome 
accorded  to  him,  that  he  would  never  more 
return  to  the  wilderness.  He  would  indeed 
promise  and  guarantee  to  do  so,  but  on  one 
condition  only.  Need  we  say  what  that 
was,  or  ihal  the  concession  was  made  } 

'Are  you  sure  thai  you  think  me  worthy 
of  your  love,  after  all  my  folly  ?  '  murmured 
she.  '  l)Ut  1  have  suffered — you  will  know 
how  much.  I  have;  repented,  ww^X,  dearest 
Harold.  1  will  try  to  be  the  woman  you  would 
liavc  nic  to  be.' 

'  There  has  been  but  one;  woman  In  the 
world  for  mc'  he  said,  clasping  her  to  iiis 
heart.      '  She  is  mine  now  for  ever  ;   lite  holds 


XII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  ^zi 

no  other  prize  henceforth  that  I  will  stretch 
out  my  hand  to  seize.' 

What  more  remains  to  tell  ?  Pollie's  pro- 
bation was  ended.  Her  wayward,  errant 
woman's  heart,  '  with  feelings  and  fancies 
like  birds  on  the  wing,'  had  found  rest,  relief, 
and  safety  on  the  manly  breast  of  Harold 
Atherstone.  Henceforth  there  was  no  fear, 
uncertainty  or  anxiety.  She  felt  a  wavering 
dread  at  times  lest  he,  requiring  so  much 
love  (as  she  had  gauged  his  temperament), 
would  find  her  nature  unequal  to  the  de- 
mand. But,  as  generally  happens  in  similar 
cases,  this  proved  to  be  a  groundless  appre- 
hension. 

As  for  Mrs.  Devereux,  she  was  prepared 
to  sing  'Ntmc  dimittis.''  Her  cherished  hope 
had  been  realised.  Maroobil  and  Corindah 
in  conjunction  would  make  a  princely  pro- 
perty, no  matter  how  many  there  might  be  to 
inherit  it.  In  every  relation  of  life  Harold 
was  a  tower  of  strength.  Now  she  had  a  son 
whom  she  had  loved  since  the  days  of  his 
fearless  childhood.  Now  was  she  proud, 
happy,  thankful.  Providence  did  sometimes 
settle  affairs  of  mortals  aright.     She  had  only 


334  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 

to  thank  God  humbly  on  her  bended  knees 
that  night,  to  pra\  with  tears  and  sobs  for  her 
darling's  happiness,  believing  in  her  inmost 
heart  that  it  was  now  assured  and  lasting. 

And  she  was  happy — perfectly,  utterly, 
completely,  if  there  be  such  a  thing  in  this 
world  below.  They  lived  for  the  greater 
part  of  the  year  at  Maroobil  or  Corindah, 
choosing  by  preference  the  (juiet  home  life, 
wlierc  they  had  full  enjoyment  of  each  other's 
society,  varied  only  by  the  ordinary  demands 
upon  their  hospitality,  which  they  were  care- 
ful to  recognise  fully  as  of  old.  Maroobil 
was  voted  to  be  the  pleasantest  visiting-place 
in  the  West,  and  Mrs.  Harold  Atherstone  the 
most  perfect  hostess. 

'  What  a  fortunate  thing  that  you  were 
able  to  sell  out  of  that  horrid  Queensland 
country  so  advantageously  ! '  said  Mrs.  Ather- 
stont'  a  month  after  their  marriage,  when, 
resting  under  the  shadows  of  Mount  WtHing- 
ton,  they  absorbed  r.ilhcr  than  adiniretl  the 
charms  of  the  varied  Tasmaiiian  landsca[)e. 
'  I  shall  never  forget  my  fears  on  y(Hir  account 
during  that  last  jourm  y.' 

'  1    take    great    (  rcdil    loi    not   cumniiiting 


XII  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  335 

myself  before  I  started,'  he  said.  '  It  grieved 
me  sore,  but  I  held  out.  I  was  mortally 
afraid,  too,  that  you  might  have  another  pro- 
posal in  my  absence.  I  suppose  you  hadn't  ?  ' 
'Well,  not  quite  a  proposal,  only  from  Mr. 

'  Why,  you  insatiable  woman,  you  don't 
mean  to  say  that  }  Tell  me  this  moment 
who  it  was.      Why  didn't  I  know  before  ?  ' 

'  Don't  look  so  fierce,  and  I'll  confess 
everything.  It  is  not  much.  But  Mr. 
Courtenay,  the  Rev.  Cyril,  did  call  while  you 
were  away,' 

'  Confound  him  !  The  smooth-faced  hum- 
bug!' growled  Harold,  twirling  his  mous- 
tache. '  However,  "  Better  men  than  he," 
etc.     Well,  go  on,  Circe ' 

'  None  of  your  heathen  innuendoes,  or  I 
stop.  But  really,  love,  the  poor  fellow  said 
he  had  been  left  a  competence  by  an  uncle, 
and  that  as  he  could  not  now  be  accused  of 
mercenary  feelings,  he  wished  me  to  know, 
etc.  ;  we  should  be  able  to  do  so  much  good 
with  his  means  and  those  Providence  had 
gifted  me  with.  Of  course  I  explained  gently 
that  it  could  not  be.      I   felt  quite  clever,   I 


536  THE  CROOKED  STICK 


assure  you.  I  had  only  to  alter  what  I  said 
to  Mr.  MacCalluni  a  very  little.  It  would 
have  served  you  right,  sir,  if  I  had  taken  him 
after  your  leavinc;  nie  in  that  way.' 

'  II — m,  you  wont  be  left  much  in  future, 
madam,  as  you  are  not  to  be  trusted. 

Brian  Devereux  Atherstone  and  Harold 
the  second  were  respectively  three  years  and 
one  year  old  when,  the  season  being  a  good 
one,  and  wool  above  the  average,  it  was 
decided  by  the  collective  wisdom  of  the  family 
that  a  suitable  opportunity  had  occurred  for 
the  long- promised  visit  to  Europe.  Mrs. 
Devereux  had  no  ohjcxtion  to  offer,  except 
that  the  dear  children  mi^lu  not  in  all  respects 
be  benefited.  I)Ui  this  was  overruled.  Sta- 
tistics were  quoted  to  the  effect  that  on  board 
the  P.  and  ().  and  Messageries  steamers 
children  were  stronger,  happier,  and  longer 
livt.'d  than  on  shore.  I'inally  the  project  was 
carried  out,  Mr.  Gateward  being  left  in  full 
possession  of  the  station  for  the  three  years 
which  it  was  iiU<-n(l((l  thai  the  lour  should 
embrace. 

Why   atlcinpl   to   poilra)-   here   with    what 


,xii  OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  337 

supreme,  almost  unutterable,  delight  two  cul- 
tured persons  of  congenial  tastes  and  fresh, 
unworn  mental  palates  savoured  the  intel- 
lectual banquets  placed  before  them  ?  Again 
and  again  did  Mrs.  Atherstone  declare  that 
her  cup  of  happiness  was  filled  to  the  brim, 
even  running  over. 

On  one  of  those  elysian  days,  as  Pollie  sat 
dreamily  under  the  columns  of  the  Temple  of 
Poseidon,  while  around  them  stretched  the 
green  plain  of  Psestum,  Harold,  who  had 
been  reading  Galignani  with  a  Briton's  never- 
failing  interest,  handed  the  paper  to  her  with 
a  pencil-marked  paragraph. 

Her  cheek  paled  for  an  instant,  then 
glowed  more  brightly,  her  eye  flashed,  her 
head  was  raised,  as  she  ran  over  the  following 
extract  from  a  society  paper  : — '  We  observe 
with  regret  that  the  demise  of  Sir  Ralph  de 
Wynton  at  his  seat,  Wynton  Hall,  Hereford- 
shire, took  place  on  Thursday  last.  The 
announcement  will  not  surprise  many  who 
were  acquainted  with  the  sombre  family 
history  of  the  last  male  heir  of  this  ancient 
race.  The  deceased  baronet  had  been  for 
many  years  a  hopeless  invalid.      It  was  be- 


338  THE  CROOKED  STICK  chap. 


lieved,  indeed,  that  he  was  j)laccd  in  confine- 
ment at  those  periods  when  he  was  supposed 
to  he  traveUing  abroad.  Owing  to  differences 
which  had  arisen  at  an  early  period  of  their 
union,  it  was  generally  supposed  that  Lady 
de  Wynton,  who  resided  chielly  at  Florence, 
had  arranged  a  virtual  separation.  The 
estates,  with  all  property,  real  and  personal, 
excepting  only  her  ladyship's  aniijlc  jointure, 
pass  to  Colonel  dc  \\'\  iUt)n  of  the  Life  Guards.' 

'  So,  poor  thing,  she  has  been  freed  from 
her  fetters  at  last ! '  said  the  fair  reader,  as 
she  handed  back  the  paper  with  a  smile  of 
loving  content  and  absolute  trust  to  her  hus- 
band. 'She  will  now  l)e  free  to  marry 
Bertram,  and  1  irust  sincerely  they  will  be 
happy.  1  alwa\s  pitied  her  Irom  my  heart, 
and  thought  it  a  case  oi  cruel  wrong  ami 
injustice.' 

'H — m!'  replied  Harold,  with  cautious 
non-C(jmmittal.  '  I  suppose  very  probable. 
"More  sinned  against,"  etc.  Hut  1  don't 
wonder  at  your  sympathy.  \'ou  are  under 
greater  obligations  to  Sybil,  Lady  de  Wynton, 
than  to  any  living  woman,  the  grandnunn 
•  Mily  excepted.' 


OR  POLLIE'S  PROBATION  339 


'  Obligations  indeed  !  Why  ?  '  she  de- 
mands, in  much  astonishment.  '  Oh  !  I  know 
— though  it's  hke  your  cool  audacity  to  say 
so — because  but  for  her  I  should  have  gone 
through  the  wood,  and  through  the  wood,  and 
taken — as  I  fully  believe  and  acknowledge 
now — "  The  Crooked  Stick  "  at  last.' 


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Defoe. — The  Adventures   ok  Robinson 

Crusoe.     Introduction  by  H.  Kingsley. 
Dryden. — Poetical   Works.     A    Revised 

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Memoir  and  Notes,  by  Prof.  Ward. 
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Virgil.— Works.     Rendered  into   English 

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GOETHE.  —  Maxims    and    Reflections. 

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Bacon. — E>;savs,  and  Colours  of  Good 
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Paper  Edition.     8vo.      lox.  6ii   net. 

Browne.  Sir  Thomas.— Religio  Medici, 
Lettkr  to  a  Friend,  &c.,  and  Christ- 
ian  MoKAis.     Ed.  W.  A.  Greenhill. 

Bunvan. — The  Piix;rim's  Progress  prom 

this  WoRl.O  TO  that  WHICH  IS  TO  COMK. 

—  Large  Paper  Edition.    8vo.     lor.  (ui.  net. 

BrsoN.  —  Poetry.      Chosen    and    arranged 

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ClOUOH.— SkI.KCTIONS  KKoM  THK   I'.iKMS. 

Cowpkr.  — Letters.     Edited,    with    Intro- 
duction, by  Rev.  W.  Kenham. 
—  Selections  from  Poems.    With  an  Intro- 
duction by  Mrs.  Oliphant. 
Depoe. — The  .Adventures  of   Robinson 
Crusoe.     Edited  by  J.  W.  Clark,  M.A. 
Giiacian(Balthasar).— .\rtop  Wori.dlt 

Wisdom.    Translated  by  [.  Jacobs. 
Herrick.— Chkvsomela.     Edited  by  Prof. 

F.  T.  Pai.grave. 
Hughes.— Tom  Brown  s  School  Days. 
Keats.— The    Poetical   Works.     Edited 

by  Prof.  F.  T.  Palgrave. 
Kkhle.  — Tmk  Chkistian  Year.     Edit,  by 

C.  M.  Yo-.ci:. 
Lamb.— Talks  from  Shakspeare.    Edited 

b>'  Rev.  Alfkkp  Ainghr,  M.A. 
Landor. — Selections.    Ed.  by  S.  Colvin, 
Lon<;feii  'W.  —  Ballads,     Lyrics,     and 

Sonnets. 
Mohammad.- Speeches  and  Table-Talk. 

Translated  by  Stanley  Lane-Poole. 
Newcastle.— The     Cavalier     and     his 

Lady.     Selections  from  the  Works  of  the 

Finn    D;ike    and    Duches.s   of    Newcastle. 

With  Introductory  Es.say  by  E.  Jenkins. 
Plato.— The    Republic.      Translated    by 

J.  Ll.  Davies,  .M.A.,  and  D.  J.  Vauchan. 

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—  The  Tkial  and  Death  or  Socrates. 

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and   Phacdo  uf  Plato.      Tran.<.    by   F.   J. 

Church. 
-The  PMAEt)Rrs,  Lvsis,  and  Protagoras. 

Tran»Uted  by  J.  WrigHT. 
Shakesikakk.--Songs  and  Sonnets.    Ed. 

with  Note-,  l.y  Prof.  F.  T.  Pai  GRAVE. 
Smkllkv.      P  .kms.      Edited    by    Stopford 

A.  Bkoi.ki'.      I^arge  Pat>er  Edit.     jaj.M 
MS.     ChoMii  and  .Arranged 


Slil-THKV.        I 

by  K.  I)    « 

Tkeocritis 

dered    ir.l 


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Eneli^h    Pro«e    by   Andrew 
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MooRt  i!<  Spain. 


Hare.— (iuR«iiRS    at    Truth. 
Brother*.     4>.  6ti, 


By    Two 


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land AND  Wales.  Edited  by  H.  W. 
Longfellow,     a  vols.     9J. 

Tennyson.- Lyrical  Poems.  Selected  and 
Annotated  by  Prof.  F.  T.  Palgrave.  is.fxi. 
— Large  Paper  Edition,     or. 

—  In    Memoriam.      4s.  6</— Large    Paper 
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GOLDSMITH,  Essays  of.     Edited  by  C.  D. 

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Globe     Library,    p.    23:     Illustrated 

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JAMES  (Henry).— French  Poets  and  No- 
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English  D-.a.wa.    Cr.  Svo.      [/«  the  Press. 
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COLVIN.     Globe  Svo.     5^. 
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Cr.  Svo.     3J.  dd.  each. 

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Hypatia.      ;      Yeas-^. 

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Land  Baby. 

Madam   How  and  Lady  Why  ;  or,   First 
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INDEX. 


4,  2 


19,2 


Abbey  (E.  A.) 
Abbot  (F.E.)  . 
Abbott  (E.  A.)  5, 16 
Adams  (Sir  F.  O.) 
Addison    . 

^SOP . 

Agassiz(L.) 
AlNGER(Rev.A.)  4,  5 
Ainslie(A.  D.). 
AlRY(Sir  G.  B.) 
AlTKEN  (Mary  C.) 
AiTKEN  (Sir  W.) 
Albemarle  (Earl  of) 
Aldous  (J.  C.  P.) 
Aldrich  (T.  B.) 
Alexander  (C.  F.) 
Alexander  (T.) 
Alexander  (Bishop) 
Allbutt  (T.  C.) 
Allen  (G.) 
Allingham  (W.) 
Amiel(H.F.)  . 
Anderson  (A.'i . 
Anderson  (L.). 
Anderson  (Dr.  McCall) 
Andrews  (C.  M.)     . 
Andrews  (Dr.  Thomas) 
Appleton  ;T.  G.) 
Archer-Hind  (R.  D.) 
Arnold  (M.)  9, 16, 22, 24, 
Arnold  (Dr.  T.) 
Arnold  (W.T.) 
Ashley  (W.  J.). 
Atkinson  (G.  F.)     . 
Atkinson  ( f.  B.) 
Atkinson  (Rev.  J.  C.) 
Attwell  (H.) . 
Austin  (Alfred) 
Autenrieth  (Georg) 
AWDRY  (F.) 

Bacon  (Francis)  4, 

Badenoch  (L.  N.)   . 
Baines  (Rev.  E.)      . 
Baker  (SirS.  W.)4,34,35 
Balch  (Elizabeth)     . 
Baldwin  (Prof.  J.M.) 
Balfour  (F.  M.) 
Balfour  (J.  B.) 
Ball  (J.)  . 
Ball  (W.  Piatt) 
Ball  (W.  W.  R.)      . 
Ballance  (C.  a.)     . 
Barker  (G.  F.) 
Barker  (Lady)  . 
Barlow  (J.) 
Barnard  (C.)  . 
Barnes  (R.  H.) 
Barnes  (W.)     . 
Barnett  (E.  a.) 
Bartholomew  (J.  G 
Bartlett  (J.)  . 
Barwell  (R.)  . 
Bastable  (Prof.  C.  F.) 
Bateman  (  j.)  . 
Bates  (K.  L.)  . 
Bateson  (W.) 
Bath  (Marquis  of) 


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5.  36,  39 


2,  24 


Bather  (Archdeacon) 
Baxter  (L.) 
Beeslv  (Mrs.)  . 
Behrens  (H.)  . 
Benedikt  (R.) 


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3,44  Benham  (Rev.  W.)6,  23,  24,  38 
3  I  Benson  (Archbishop)        .     39 

4,  3Q  I  Benson  (W.A.  S.)  .  2,  35 
17  '  Berg  (L.)  ....       9 

3,  32  !  Berlioz  (H.)  .  .  4 
23  Bernard  (C.  E.)  .  .  4 
28  Bernard  (J.  H.)      .        .     30 

3  Bernard  (H.  M.)    .         6,  32 

3S  Bernard  (M.)  .         .         .14 

16  Bernard  (T.  D.)      .        .     39 

23  Berners(J.)     .        .        .13 

9  Besant  (W.)     ...       4 

39  Bettany  (G.  T.)  .  .  7 
26  '  Bickerton  (T.  H.)  .        .     27 

7  Bigelow(M.  M.)      .        .     14 

23  Bik6las  (D.)    .         .         .19 

3  Binnie  (Rev.  W.)      .         .     3q 

16  BiRKS  (T.  R.)    .     6,  29,  36,  39 

2  BjORNSON  (B  )  .  .  .19 

26  Black  (W.)      ...       4 

II  Blackburne  (E.)     .               4 

31  Blackie  (J.  S.)         .11,16,22 

43  Blake  (J.  F.)    ...       3 

43  Blake  (W.)       ...      4 
4,36  Blakiston  (J.  R.)    .        .       Q 

II  Blanford(H.  F.)    .       10,32 

II  Blanford  (W.  T.)   .       10,28 

3  Blennekhassett  (R.)     .     44 

7  ,  Blomfield  (R.)        .        ,     10 

2  :  Blyth  (A.  W.) .  ,     13 

1,  44  Bohm-Bawerk  (Prof.)  .  32 
23  I  Boldrewood  (Rolf ).        .     19 

5,  22    ;    BONAR  (J.)  .  .  3,  33 

8  Bond  (Rev.  J.).         .         .     36 

44  Boole  (G)        .  .     30 

2,  24  Booth  (C.)       .        .        .35 

46  EOS.^NQUET  (E.)           .          30,  S5 

39  Bose  (W.  p.  du)        .         .     40 

f3,44  Boughton  (G.  H.)   .       14,  44 

13  BOUTMY  (E.)     .         .         .14 

30,  31  Bowen(H.C.).        .         .     29 

6,  7  Bower  (F.  O.)  .        .        .7 

7  Bowes  (R.)        ...      3 

44  Bradley  (.A..  W.)      .        .      4 

6  Brett (R.  B )  .        .        .11 

4,  26  Bridges  (J.  A.).  .  .  22 
26  Bright  (H.  A.).        .        .     10 

31  Bright  (John)  .         .         -34 
9,43,44  Brimlev(G.)    .        .        .22 

43  Brodie  (Sir  I?.).         .         .       7 

32  Brodribb  (\V.  j.)      .        15,  43 

5  Brooke  (Sir  J.)        .        .       4 

4  Brooke  fS.  A.).i5, 16,  24, 38,39 
35  Brooks  (Bishop)       .       39,  44 

3  Brown  (Prof.  C.)      .         .     31 

3,  16  Brown  (J.  A.)  .         .         .1 

6  Brown  (Dr.  James)  .         .       4 
32  Brown  (T.  E.)  .                 .16 

4  Browne  a.  H.B.)  .     13 
22  Browne  (Sir  T.         .         .24 

6  Brunton  (Dr.  T.  Lauder).     39 

34  Bryce  (James) .         .        11,  34 


FAGB 

•  25 

6.  34 

II,  12 
.  27 
.      46 

22,  24 

•  35 


•    19 
16,  23 


Buchheim  (C.  a.)    . 
buckland  (a.). 
Buckley  (A.  B  ) 

BUCKNILL  (Dr.  J.C  ) 

Buckton  (G.  B.)      . 

BUNYAN      .  .  .4, 

Burdett(C.  W.  B.). 

BURGON  rj.W.) 

Burke  (E.) 

Burn  (R.). 

Burnett  (F.  Hodgson) 

Burns 

Bury  (J.  B.)      . 

Butcher  (Prof  S.  H.) 

I5i  22,  43. 
Butler  (A.  J.). 
Butler  (Rev.  G.) 
Butler  (Samuel) 
Butler  (Archer) 
Butler  (Sir  W.  F.) 
Buxton  (Mrs.  S.) 
Byron 

Cairnes  (J.  E.) 
Cajori  (F.) 

Caldecott  (R.)       .       I 
Calderon 

Calderwood  (H.)  .  6, 
Calderwc.cid  (\V.  L.) 
Calvert  (Rev.  A.)  . 
Cameron  (V.  L.) 
Cami'bell  (D.  H  )  . 
Campbell  (Sir  G.)  . 
Campbell  (J.  D.)  . 
Campbell  (J.  F.) 
Campbell  (Dr.  J.  M.) 
Campbell  (Prof.  Lewis) 
Cantillon 
Capes  (W.W.). 
Carles  (W.  R.) 
Carlyle(T.)  . 
Carmarthen (Lady) 
Carnarvon  (Earl  of) 
CARNOTfN.  L.  G.)  . 
Carpenter  (iJishoo) 
Carr(J.C.)  . 
Carroll  (Lewis) 
Carter  (R.  Brudenell) 
rASSEL(Dr.  D.) 
Cattel  (J.  McK.)  . 
Cautley(G.  S.) 
Cazenove  (J.  G.) 
Chalmers  (J.  B.) 
Chalmers  (M.  D.)  . 
Chapman  (Elizabeth  R.) 
Chappell  (W  ). 
Chase  (Rev.  F.  H.). 
Chasseresse  (Diana) 
Chaucer  . 
Cheetha.m  (.Archdeacon).  37 
Cherry  (R.R.)  .  .  14 
Cheyne(C.H.  H.)  .  .  3 
Cheyne  (T.  K.)  .  .  36 
Christie  (W.  D.)  .  .  23 
CHURCH(Ptof  A.  H.)  .        7 

Church  (Rev.  A.  J.)     4,35,47 


iSi  43: 

39. 

16 

39' 

4. 

35 

24- 

33,  34- 

26 

44 

16 

9.30 

46 

36 

44 

7 

4 

I  16 

44 

39 

i  IS 

33 

IS 

44 

4 

19 

43 

32 

39 

2,  16 

30,  45 

27 

II 

30,  31 

16 

39 

9 

34 

16 

28 

37 

35 


Church  (F.  J.). 
Church  (Dean). 


•15.  24,  43 
4.Si22,37i39 


48 


INDEX. 


Clare  (G.) 
Clark  (I   W.). 
Clark  (L.) 
Clark  (R) 
Clark  (S.) 
Clakk(T.  M.). 
Clarke  (C.  B.). 
Cleveland  (Ducbess) 
Clifford  (Ed.) 
Clifford  (W.K.)    . 
Clifford  (Mrs.  W.K.) 
Clough  (.\.  H.) 

COBUEN (R ) 

Cohen  (J.  B.)    . 

C.>HN(L.). 

Cole  (G.  .\.  O.) 
CouiNso(J.\V.) 
Coleridge  (C.  R.)  . 
COLERIDCE  (S.  T.)     . 
Collier  (Hon.  John) 
Collins  (F.  Churton) 
COLQUHOUN  (F.  S.)    . 
CoLVIN  (Sidney) 
Combe  (G.) 
Commons  (J.  R.)      . 

CONGREVE  (Rev.  J.)  . 
CONWAV(HuRh) 

Cook  (K.  T.)     . 
Cooke  (.\.  H.) . 
Cooke  (C  Kinloch)  . 
Cooke  (J.  P.)    . 
Co<ii>er(K.  H.) 

CORBETT  (J.)      .      4i  I9i 
RFIKI.P(W.  H.)      . 


PACK 

33 
»4 

3 
35 

4 
9 


l6,  32,  24 

34 


PAGB 

•      31 
4.  15.  43 


37.40 

6,  40 


16 


16 
4.  34 

I  9 
33 
39 
19 

3 

38 

38 

8,  39 

10 

20.  45 


3' 


4> 

»3i 

24 

3S 

5 

18 

3 
39 
>3 
45 

CoR 

C"KNI-H    (F.)      .  ..-!.() 

C..K,..S(H)         . 

Coii.sA(L.) 
Cotes  (E.). 

Cotterill  ( I.  H.)  .        .      9 

Cotton  (Bishop)  .  .  39 
Cotton  (C.)      .  .14 

Cotton  (J.  S.)  .  .        .     34 

CouEs  (E.)  .        .46 

Coi-rthope  (W.  J.)  .  4,15 
Cowell(G.)  .37 

COWHBR  .     16,  32,  33,  34 

Cox  (G.  v.) 
Craik  (Mrs.)  16,  30,  a■^,  44,  45 
Craik  (H.)  .  6,  9,  33,  34 
Crank (Lucv)  .  -45 

Crane  (Walter)  .     45 

Cravf.n  (.Mr>.  D.)  .       9 

Crawford  (K.  M.)  .  30,  33 
Creiohton  (Bi.ihop  M.)   5,17 

CRICHTON-BRO\VNE(SirJ.)         9 

Cross  (J.  A.)  ...  35 
Cr<>sskkv(R.).  .  .  13 
Crossi  KV  (K.)  ...  3 
Crosm  kv(H.)  .  .  .43 
Ci;hmino(L.)  .        .        .     31 

CUNLIFFK  (J.  W.)      .  .       33 

CUNNISf;MAM   (C.)      .  .       34 

Cv)NMN(illAM  (Sir  U.S.).       30 

Clnnis'.iiam  (Rev.  J.)     .     37 

COKNIN<.MAM(RrV.W)lT,38,39 
CVNVN'illAMR  (Sir  A.  T.) 


16, 1 


C>iRTEis(Rev.G.  H.) 
C:iirri-.(l.)        . 
I»AiiM(G.  H.  R.)     . 
Dami.sti«om(K.  P.). 
Damn  (K.) 
r)AKVN*(H.  G) 
Daik  (A.W.  W) 
Dalton  (Rev.  J.  N.) 


38 

38.  V 


Daniell  (.\lfred).     . 

Dantk 

D.w  IDSON  (l)ishop)   . 

DAViBs(Rev.  J.  Ll.V 

Davies(W.^      . 

Dawkins(W.B.) 

Dawson  (G.M.) 

Dawson  (Sir  J.  W.)  . 

Dawson  (W.J.) 

Dav(L.  B.) 

Dav(R.  E.) 

Dean  (A.). 

Defob(D.) 

Deokkdon  (W.  E.)  . 

Deighton  (K.). 

Delamotte  (P.  H.). 
1  Dki.ihis  (L.) 

Dell  (E.G.)     . 
i  Db  Morgan  (M.) 
I  Deissen  (P.)    .        .        .     30 

I    Dl:  (JUATKKFAi.Ks  (.X.)      .  I 

j    Dr  V  ARIGNY  (H.)  6 

]  De  Vere  (.A.)    .        .16,17,33 
Dicey  {A.  V.)    .  14,  34 

Dickens  (C.)  .  .  so,  23 
Dilkens  (M.  a.)  .  20,  23 
DiGGLE(Rev.J.  W.). 
DM.KE(Ashton  W.)  . 
DiLKE  (Sir  Charles  W.)  38,  34 

I    DiLLWVN  (E.  A.) 

Dobbin  (L.) 

I    DOBSON  (A.) 

Donaldson  (J.) 
j  Donisthori'E  (W.) 

Dowden  (E.)         4 

DovLE(Sir  F.  H.) 

Doyle  (J- A.)    . 

Draoe(G.) 
I  Drake  (B.) 

I    DRUMMOND(Prof.  J.) 

I  Dryden 
I  Du  Cane(E.  F.) 
I   DuFF(Sir  M.  E;.G.)  6,33,34,44 
i  dunsmuir  (.\.). 
'  DOntzkr  (H.)  . 
DUKAND  (Sir  M.) 

Dver(L.). 

I)YEK(H.). 

I  Eadik(J.). 
Earl  (A.). 
I  Eastlake  (Ijidy) 

E8ERS(G.) 
I   ECCLES  (A.  S.)  . 
Eix:kworth  (Prof.  F.  Y.), 

'    I-.lx.l-.WoKTll  (M.) 

1  Edmunds  (Dr.  W.)   . 

I  EDWARi)S-Moss(Sir  J.  E. 

I  Eimkk(G.  H.T.)      . 

I  Eldkrton  (W.  a.)   . 

I  Eli.krton  (Rev.  J.) . 
Ei.i.iot  (Hon.  A.) 

I  Eli  IS  (T.). 

I  Emf.kson  (R.  W.)      .         4,3, 

I    EMrKs.is(0.  F.)  .      ;•, 

Ekman  (A.)  J 

Evans  Mjidy)  .  7 

I  Evans  (S.)  '7 

I  Evkrktt  (J.  D.)  .     31 

KAi.Cf)NitR  (Ijinoe)    .  3o 

Farrar  (Archdeacon)  6,  36,  40 
Farrk.r  (SirT.  H.)   .  34 

Fasnaciit  (G.  K.)  .     33 

Faulkner  (F.).  7 

Fawi  f.tt  (I'rof.  H.).        33,  34 


S 
>4 
38 
34 
8,24 
«7 

>3 

35 
4a 

4  > 

33 

34 


a>  33 


35.  37 
3" 


Fawcett  (Mrs.  H.) . 
Fay  (.Amy) 
F.wkkk  (Sir   ].). 
Fearnley  (W.) 
Fearon  (D.  R.) 
Ferkel  (W.) 
Fessenden  (C.) 
FiKinK^A.  M.). 
Finck(H.T.)  . 
Finlayson  (T.  C.)    . 
Fisher  (Rev.  O.) 
Fiske(J.).    6,  7,  11,  30, 
Fison(L.). 
Fitch  (J.  G.)    . 
Fitz  Gerald  (Caroline) 
Fitzgerald  (Edward) 
Fitzmaurice  (Lord  E.) 
Flag.;  (A.  T.)  . 
Fleischer  (E.). 
Fleming  (G.)    . 
Flower  (Sir  W.H.). 
FlCckiger  (F.A.)    . 

Fo.M.A(A.  J.)    . 

Fori.es  (A.) 
FoKliES  (Prof.  G.)       . 

Forbes  (kev.  G.  H.) 
Fokhes-Mitchell  (W.) 
Foster  (Prof.  M.)     . 
Fostkr-Mklliar  {A.) 

FoTHERGIl.L  (Dr.  I.  M.) 

FowLK  (Rev.  T.  W.). 
Fowler  (Rev.  T.)     . 
Fowier(W.W.)       .3, 
FoxCr.  W.)      . 
Fox  (Dr.  Wilson) 
FoxwELL(Prof.  H.  S) 
Framji(D.) 
Frankland  (P.  F.)  . 
Fraser  (Bishop) 
Fraskr-Tytler  (C.  C.) 
Frazkr  (J.  G.)  . 
Freeman  (Prof.  E.  A.) 
3,  5.  ".  '». 
French  (G.  R.) 
Frikdmann  (P.) 
Fkoissakt 
Frost  (A.  B.)    . 
Froude  (J.  A.). 
fui.i.krton  (w.  m.) 
furnivai.l  (f.  j.)    . 
Fyffe  (C.  a.)    . 
Fvkk(H.H.)    . 
Gaikdner  (J.)  . 
Gaisford  (H.)  . 
GALr(J.). 
Galton  (F.) 
GAMfiKB  (.Vrthur) 
Gardner  (Percy) 
Garnett  (R.)  . 
Gawnktt(W.). 
Gaskeli.  (Mrs.) 
Gaskoin  (Mrs.  H.)  . 
Gei.i.es(W.  D.) 
Ci-.i  (II.)   . 
Gkf(W.) 
Gl-i:  (W.  W.  H.) 
Geikik  (Sir  A.).        4,  6, 
Gennadius  ( I.) 
Geni'n<,(F.  F.) 
GiRBiNsdl.de  li.)    . 
G I iiiioN  (Charles) 
GlIXMRISl   (A.). 


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6,33 
.     28 

•  13 

•  3" 

•  9 

•  3a 

•  31 

•  »3 

I 

•  33 

•  3' 
34.  40 

I 

9 

■      17 

'7.  »3 

6 

39 
8 

30 
46 
37 

33 

4.  44 

3 

40 

5 

7.  3» 
.  10 
9.  »7 
34.  40 
4.  30 
33,  aS 

35 
a? 

33 


34,3s 
16 


Gil  KS  (P.), 
Gil. MAN  (N 


(N.  P.) 


39 

33.  35 


INDEX. 


49 


GiLMORE  (Rev.  J. 

Gladstone  (Dr.  J.  H.) 
Gladstone  (W.  E.)  . 
Glaister  (E.)  . 

GODFRAY  (H.)    . 

Godi<:in(G.  S.). 
Goethe     .        .       4,  5, 
Goldsmith       4,  14,  17, 
Conner  (E.  C.  K.)  . 
Goodfellow  (J.) 
Gordon  (General  C.  G.) 
Gordon  CLady  Duff) 
Gordon  (H.)     . 
Gosi-HEN  {Rt.  Hon.  G.  J 
GossE  (Edmund) 
Gow(J.)    . 
Gow  (W.)  , 
Gracian  (Balthasar) 
Graham  (D.)    . 
Graham  (J.  W.) 
Grand'homme  (E.)  . 
Gra.ve(\V.  L.). 
Grant  (C.) 
Gray  (Prof.  Andrew) 
Gray  (Asa) 

Gray  .  .4, 

Gray  (J.  L.)      . 
Gregory  (R.  A.) 
Green  (J.  R.)  10,  11,  12, 
Green  (Mrs.  J.  R.)  .  5, 
Green  (W.S.). 
Greenhill  (W.  A.)  . 
Gree.vwood  (F.) 
Greenwood  (J.  E.)  . 
Grenfell  (Mrs.) 
Griffiths  (W.  H.)  . 
Grimm 

Grove  (Sir  G.). 
Guest  (E.) 
Guest  (M.J.)  . 
Guillemin  (A.) 
Guizot(F.  P.  6.)      . 
Gunton  (G.)     . 
Gwatkin  (H.  M.)    . 
Halle  (E.  von) 
Hales  (J.  W.)  . 
Hallward  (R.  F.)   . 
Hamerton  (P.  G.)  .  2, 
Hamilton  (Prof.  D.  J.) 
Hamilton  (J.). 
Hanbury  (D.)  . 
Hannay  (David) 
Hardwick  (.\rchd   C.) 
Hardy  (A.  S.)  . 
Hardy  (W.  J.). 
Hare  (A.  W.)   . 
Hare  (J.  C.)     . 
Harker(A.)     . 
Harper  (Father Thos.) 
Harris  (Rev.  G.  C.). 
Harrisom  (F.).  5,  6,12 
Harrison  (Miss  J.) . 
Harte  (Bret)    . 
HARTiG(Dr.  R.) 
Hartley  (Prof.  W.  N.) 
Hassall(A.)    . 
Hauser(K.)     . 
Hawkins  (H.  P.)     . 
Hayes  (A.) 
Headlam  (A.  C.)     . 
Headley  (F.  W.)     . 
Heaviside  (O.) 
Helm(P:.). 
Helps  (Sir  A.)  . 


17,  I 


PAGE 

•  15 

S.9 
16 

•  2,  9 

•  3 
.       6 

17.  23 

23>  24 

10 

13 

5 

44 

31 

33 

4.  15 

2 

29 

24 

17 


7,    24 

I7>  24 


14.   24 
10,    12 

44 
24 
24 
45 
9 
27 

4'^ 


40 
27 

4 
37.  40 
20 
37 
24 
40 
32 
30 
4' 
4,24 

2 
20 


46 


HEMPEL(Dr.  W.) 

Herman  (H.)  . 
Herodotus  .  .  .42 
Herrick  .  .  .  .24 
Herrmann  (G.) 
Hertel  (Dr.)  ...  9 
Hertz  (H.)  .  .  .31 
Hickie  (W.  J.).  .  .  36 
Higinbotham  (C.  J.)  .  5 
Hill  (D.J.)  ...  30 
Hill  (F.  Davenport)  .     34 

Hill(0.)  ...  34,  35 
Hill(G.  B.)  . 
Hiorns(A.  H.)  .  .  28 
HoBART  (Lord)  .        .     24 

Hobday  (E.)  . 
Hodgson  (Rev.  J.  T.)  .  5 
Hoffding  (Prof.  H.) 
Hofmann  (A.W.)  .  .3 
Hole  (Rev.  C.).  .  8,  12 
Holiday  (Henry)  . 
Holland  (T.  E.) 
Hollway-Calthrop  (H 
Holm  (A.). 

Holmes  (O.  W.,  junr.) 
•15. 


14 

6,43 
14 


36 


43 


16,  2 

36,  37,  40 

33 
17 

43 
14,  33 
32,  46 


28 


Homer 

Hood(T.). 

Hooker  (Sir  J.  D.) 

HooleCC.H.)  . 

Hooper  (G.) 

Hooper  (W.  H.) 

Hope  (F.J.)      . 

Hopkins  (E.)    . 

Hoppus(M.  A.  M.) 

Horace     . 

HoRT  (F.  J.  A.). 

HoRTON  (Hon.  S.  D.) 

HOSKEN  (J-  D.) 

Hovenden  (R.  M.)  . 

HovifELL  (George) 

Howes  (G.  B.)  . 

howitt  (a.  w.) 

Howson  (Very  Rev.  J.  S.) 

HoziER  (Col.  H.  M.). 

HiJBNER  (Baron)        .  .     44 

Hughes  (T.) 

3,  4.  5,  17,  20,  24.  4c,  44 
Hull  (E.).  .  .  2,  10 
HULLAH  (J.)  .  .  2,  23,  28 
Hume  (D.)  ...  4 
HuMPHRY(Prof.SirG.M.)  32,46 
HUNT(W.)  ...      12 

Hunt(W.)  ...  2 
Hutchinson  (C.  W.  C.)  .  2 
hutton  (r.  h.)  .  4,  24 
Huxlev(T)  4, 24, 30, 31,32,35,^6 
HYnE(\V.  de  W.)  .  .  4° 
Illingworth  (Rev.  J.  R.)  40 
Ingram  (T.  D.) 
Ireland  (A.)  . 
Irving  (H  ) 
Irving  (J.) 
Irving  (Washington) 
Jackson  (D.  C.) 
Jackson  (Helen) 
Jacob  (Rev.  J.  A.) 
Jacobs  (J.) 
James  (Henry). 
James  (Rev.  H.) 
James  (Prof  W.)  . 
Jaedine  (Rev.  R.)  . 
Jeans  (Rev.  G  E.)  . 
Jebb  (Prof.  R.C.)  4,12,13,25 
Jellett  (Rev.  J.  H.)        .     40 


40 

13,  24,  44 
4,  21,  25 

•  40 

•  30 

•  30 
40,  43 


PAGE 

•  34 
12,  36 

•  43 


•  34 
34,  35 

•  9 

•  25 

•  32 
15,  23 

•  36 

•  32 


Jenks  (Prof.  Ed.)     . 
Jennings  (A.  C.) 
Jersey  (Countess  of) 
Jephson (H.)    . 
Jevons  (W.  S.)  s,  30,  33 
Jex-Blake  (Sophia). 

JoCELINE  (E.)    . 

Johnson  (Amy) 
Johnson  (Samuel)    .  5, 
JOLLEY  (A.  J.)   . 
Jones  (Prof.  D.  E.)  . 
Jones  (F.).         .        .  8 

Jones  (H.  Arthur)  .  15,  17 
Jones  (H.  S.)  .  .  .  z 
Julius  (Dr.  P.).  .  .  3 
Kahlden  (C.)  .  .  .27 
Kalm  (P.)  .         .         -44 

Kant  .  .  .  -30 
Kanthack  (A.  A.)  .  .  27 
Kari  .        .         .         .45 

KAVANAGH(Rt.Hn.A.M.)  5 
Kay  (R«v.  W.)  .  .     37 

Kearv  (Annie).  12,21,36,45 
Keary  (Eliza)   .  -45 

Keats  .  .  .4,  24,  25 
Keble(J.).  .  .  .24 
Kellner  (Dr.  L.)     .  29 

Kellogg  (Rev.  S.  H.I  .  40 
Keltie  (J.  S.)  .  .  .35 
KfcLViN  (Lord).  10,  25,  31 

Kempe  (A.  B.)  .  .31 

Kennedy  (Prof.  A  B.  W  )  "9 
Kennedy  (B.  H.)  .  .  42 
Kennedy  (P.)  .  .21 

Keynes  (J.  N.). 
Kidd(B.) 
Kiepert  (H.)    . 
Kimi'.er  (i).  G.) 
Kingsley  (Charles) 

13,15,17,21,25,  28, 
Kingsley (G.)  . 
Kingsley  (Henry)    . 
Kipling  (J.  L.). 
Kipling  (Rudyard)  . 

KiRKFATRICK  (Prof.) 

Klein  (Dr.  E.). 
Klein  (F.) 
Knight  (W.)    . 
Kuknen  (Prof.  A.)    . 
Kyn ASTON  (Rev.  H.) 
Labberton  (R.  H.)  . 
Lafargue  (P.). 
Lamb.        .        .        4. 
Lanciani  (Prof.  R.). 
Landauer  (J.). 
Landor     . 
Lank-Poole  (S.) 
Lanfrey(P.)   . 
Lang  (Andrew) 
Lang  (Prof.  Arnold). 
Langley  (J.  N.) 
Langmaid  (T.). 
Lank  ester  (Prof.  Ray) 
Laslktt  (T.)    . 
Laughton  (J.  K.) 
Laurie  (A.  P.). 
Lea  (A.  S.) 
Leaf  (W.) 
Leahy  (Sergeant) 
Lee(M.)  . 
Lee  (S.)     . 
Lee-Warner  (W.) 
Leeper  (A.) 
Legge  (A.  O.)  . 


30, 

33 

35 

10 

32 

.S  9, 

12, 

3«,44 

45 

35 

23 

44 

44 

21 

45 

30 

40 

7,  27 

28 

26 

if 

38 

36 

40 

43 

4i 

24 

5, 

24 

5 

14,  24 

43 

46 

3» 

9 

ay)  7 

25 

7 

4 

. 

.  3 

32 

16 

43 

35 

21 

23 

43 

12 

43 

12 

40 

so 


INDEX. 


PAGE 

Leibnitz  .        .  -33 

Leslie  (G.  D.)  .  •     25 

Letkabv  (\V.  R.)  .  2,35 
LETHHRiiMiE  (Sir  Roper)  5,  12 
Lew  (Amy)  .  .  .21 
Lewis  (Mrs.  A.  S.)  .  .  36 
Lewis  (K.)  .  .  .15 
Lkwkuwitscii  (J  )    .  .     35 

LiGHTFOOTlBp.J  5.36  37,38,40 
LiGHTWOOD  (J.  M.)  .  14 

LiNUsAV  (Dr.  I.  A.)  .  27 

LlTTLKDAUi  01.)  .       16 

LOCKVKK  (J.  N.)  .       3,8,32 

LoLKiE  (Prof.  O.J.)  3i  25,  3' 
Lowenson-Lessing  (F.)  .  10 
LoEw>'(B.)  .        .31 

LOFTIK  (Mrs.  \V.  J.).  .         2 

LONGKKI.LOW  (H.  \V.)  34 

Lonsdale  (J.)  .  .  23,43 
Lowe  (W.  H.)  ...  36 
LOWELI   (].  RI).  14,  17,  25 

LouiMH.)  ...  35 
LujBOCK(Sir  J.)  7,9,25,46 
Lucas  (F.)        ...     17 

Lt'CAS  (Joseph)  .  .     44 

Lint  (J  ).  .         .8 

Ll'i-ton  (S.)  ...  8 
LvALl.  (Sir  Alfred)  .       4 

Lvsaght(S.  R.)  .     21 

Lvte(H.C.  M.)  .     12 

LVTTELTON  (A.  T.)  .  .  40 
LvTTfLTON  (I',.)     .        25 

LvTToN  (Earl  of)  .21 

MacAlister  (D.)    .  aS 

Macakthur  (M.)  .  12 
Macaulav  (G.  C.)    .19,23,43 

Macaii.av  (Lord)    .  .     25 

MacCoii.  (Norman).  .      16 

McClki.v(J.  F.)      .  .     41 

M'Cusii  (I>r.  J.)        .  30,  ji 

Macijonalu  (G.)  .     15 

MACKAir.  (J.  W  )  .     4- 

Maci.agan  (r)r.  T.).  27 

MaCI  AKKS  (Krv.  .\lex.)  .      41 

Maci.akkn  (ArchiWd)  .     4' 

Maclean  (G.  K.)     .  29 

Maclean  (W.C.)  .  .  37 
Maclrak  (Rev.  1)^)35,37,38 

M'Lknnan  (J.  F.)     .  I 

M'Lennan  (Malcnlin)  31 

Macmillan  (Rrv.  H.)  25,41 

Macmillan  (M«chael)  5,18 

MaCMII  LAN  (M.    K.)  21 

Mac>^uoid(K.  S.)  .  .  2- 
Maikk:(F.)  .        .     21 

MAGLIRK(i.  F.)  ,       45 

MAMAfrvO'ror  J.  p.) 

».  i>,  15.  25,  30,  41,  44 
MaITI  ANIl(F.  W.)  .  14,14 
MaLKT  (I.)  21 

MAi.(.iiv(Sir  T.)  21 

Maltih  scr.  k.)    .      .    T, 

MAf.sriELi>(C.  B.)  .  .       i 

Makkham  (C.  R.)    .  t, 

Ma,,k(J.  K.)    .         .  .     3i 

Ma«ri.,tt(;.  A.  R.).  f, 

MaM/VA  I    ((apt.)  .        -■! 

Marshai  Ld'rof.  A  )  .  33 
Mamhall  (H.  R)  .         .     30 

MAHTri  (<;.)  .    »e 

Martin  (Kr4nce«)    .  3,45 

Martin  (Krcfleritk).  .     33 

Martin  (H.N.)  .     46 

Martinbau  (C.  A).  .     3a 


8,3 


I  Martineau  (H.) 

[  .Mason  (O.  T.). 

'  Masson(D.)         i 

I  .Masson  (G.) 

I  Masson  (R.O.) 

I  .Mathkw  (E.  J.) 

I    MATLRINCRev.  W.). 

!   Maudslev  (Dr.  H.)  . 

Mal'rice(F.)  9,25,30,36 

Maurice  (Col.  F.)        5, 
,   Max  MOllbr  (F.)   . 
:    M  AVER  (A.M.). 

Mayor  (J.  B.)  . 

Mayor  (Prof.  J.  E.  B.) 

.Mazini  (L.) 

SIeloola  (Prof.  R.). 

Mendenhall  (T.  C.) 

Mengkh  (C.)     . 

.MERCIER(i)r.  C.) 

Mercur  (Prof.  J.)     . 
Meredith  (G.). 
Meredith  (L.  \.)    . 
Meyer  ( E.  von) 
Miall(L.  C.)  . 

MiClltLKT  (M.) 

Miers(H.  A.)  . 
.MiLL(H.R.)  . 
Miller(R.  K.). 
MiLLIGAN  (Rev.  W.). 

Milton  .     5 

MiNTo(Prof.  W.)      . 

MiTPORD  (A.  B.) 
MiTKORU  (M.   R.) 

.MlVART(St.  George). 
Mixti'.r(\V.G.) 
Mohammad 
.MoLEswoRTH  (Mrs.) 
.MoLLOY  ;G.) 

MONAHAN  (J.  H.) 
.MONTKLIUS  (O.) 

Moork(C.  H.). 
MooRiiousK  (Bi.shop) 

MORLSON  (I.e.) 

Morlev  (Jobn).        4,  5 
Morris  (Mowbray)  . 

.M..RMS(R.) 

Morsiikad  |E.  D.  a.) 
.MoUl.TON  (L.  C.) 
Mudik(C.  E.)  . 
MuiR(I.). 
.MuiR(M.  M.  P.) 

.MrLI.KR(ll.)      . 
MULI  INGKR  (J.  H.)    . 
MUNR..(J.    E.  C.)        . 


PAGE 

.      6 

1 

'9.23.30 

8.23 

J9 

34 

•(■ 

3» 

-38,'«' 

28,34 

30 

32 

37 

3,6 

45 


46 


13 

10 

3 

37i  41 

»5.  '7i  23 

4-  21 

21 

14 


4' 

4 

»9.  25 

4.23 

23,   21. 

43 
17 
'7 


37 


PAGE 

Norton  (Charles  Eliot)  4,43 
Norton  (Hon.  Mrs.)  i;,2i 
Oliphant  (T.  L.  K.)       25,29 

Ol.IPHANT(Mrs  M.  O.  W.) 

4,    12,    15,    31,    33,    34,   45 

Oliver  (Prof.  D.) 
Oliver  (Capt.  S.  P.) 
Oman  (C.  W.)   . 
Orr(H.  B.)      . 
Osb()kn(H.  F.) 

OSTWALD  (Prof.) 
()TTft(E.  C.)       . 
Page(T.  E.)      . 
Palgravb  (Sir  F.) 
Palcrave  (F.  T.) 

3.  17,  '9,  23,  24,  39,  45 
Palgrave  (R.  H.  Inglis)  33 
Palgkave  (W.  G.)  17,  34,  44 
Palmer  (lady  S.) 
Parker  (T.  J.). 
Parki;k(\V.  K.) 
Parkkk  (\V.  N.) 
Parkes  (Sir  H.) 
Parkin  (G.  R.  ) 
Parkinson  (S.) 
Parkman  (F.)  . 
Parry  (G.) 
Parsons  (Alfred) 
Pasteur  (L.)  . 
Patkr(W.) 


MURI'HV  (I.  J.). 

b.Chr 
Myers  (E.) 


Murray! 


istie) 


MYKRs(h.W.  H.)     .  5, 
Myi.ne  (Bishop) 
Nai.ai.(E.  S.)  . 
Ni.KNST(I)r.)    . 
Nhtti.eshii' (H.).     . 
Ni'.wcAsTi.E    (Duke     n\ 

Duchess) 
Nkwc<jMH  (.S.)  . 
Nkwton  (Sir  C.T.). 
Niciiol(J.) 
Nichols  (K.  L.) 
NiCHoLi.srH.  A.  A.) 

NiSllKT  (J.) 

NoKi.  (I-.dy  A.) 

NoMOKNSKIOl.D  (A.  E.) 

Nokgate  (Kate) 
NoRRis(W.  K.) 


'7.  43 

»7.  25 

41 

as 

8 

>5 


Paterson  {]■)  ■ 
Patmoke  (Coventry) 
Patteson  (J.  C.) 
Pattison  (Mark) 
Pali.skn  (F.)    . 
Payne  (E.J.)    . 
Peabodv  ((J.  H.) 
Pearson  (C.  H.) 
Pkasi:  (A.  E.)  . 
Peel(E.). 
Pkilk(J.). 
Pkllissikr  (E.) 
Pknnell(J.)    . 
Pennington  (R.) 
Penrose  (F.  C.) 
Percival(H.  M.) 
Perkins  (J    B.) 
Pettii.ri  w  (J.  B.) 

Pllll.l  IMORE  (  I.  G.) 

I  Phillips  (J.  A.) 
Pint  LIPS  (W.C.) 
Picton(J.  A.)  . 
Pipkari)(H.G.) 
Piki:(I..  O.)  . 
Pike  (W.). 
Plato 

Plumptre  (Dean) 
Pollard  (A.  W.)  15,41 

PoLLOCK(SirFk., and  Bart.)  6 
Poi.L(>CK(.Sir  F..  Bt.)  i«,  35,  34 
Pollock  (l.adv)  a 

Pollock  (W.  H.) 
POOLK(M.  K.)  . 
POOLK(R.  L.)     . 
Pope  . 
PosTK(E.) 
Potter  (I..) 
Potter  (R.) 
l'oris(W.) 
Preston  (T.) 
Prisi  wicii  (].). 
Pi(Ick(K.  C.)    . 
Prick  (L.  L.  F.  R.)   .        .     33 
Prickard  (A.  O.)      .  a6 


7.  46 
5 

.  46 
5 

>2,  34 

•     32 

13,    13 


14 

7 

3,   22,  25 

•        14 
23.  46 

s 

4.  4> 

9 

12,  34 

9i  3" 

35 

«3 

17 

24 

39 

3 


■  7 
13 

7.  3».  46 
15 
28 
2 
25 
27 
13 
44 
24.  43 
4" 


.      36 
•      «3 

5.  23 

32,  41 

26 

4' 

26 


INDEX. 


Prince  Albert  Victor 
Prince  George 
Procter  (F.  )    . 
Propert  (J.  L.) 
purcell  (e.  s.) 
Quesnay(F.)   . 
Kadcliffe  (C.  B.)    . 
Rae(J.)    .        .        . 
Ramsay  (Sir  A.  C.)  . 
Ramsay  (W.)    . 
Ransome  (C.)  . 
Rathbone  (W.) 
Ravvlinson  (W.G.). 
Rawnsley  (H.  D.)   . 
Ray  (P.  K.)       . 
Ravleigh  (Lord) 
Reichel  (Bishop)     . 
Reid  (J.  S.) 
Remsen  (I.) 
Renan  (E.) 
Rendall  (Rev.  F.)  . 
Rendu  (M.  leC.)      . 
Reynolds  (E.  S.)     . 
Reynolds  (H.  R.) 
Reynolds  (Sir  J.  R.) 
Reynolds  'O.) 
Rhoades(J.)    . 
Rhodes  (J.  F.). 

RlCARDO     . 

Richardson  (B.  W.) 
Richey(A.  G.). 
Righton  (E.)   . 
Ritchie  (A.)     . 
Robinson  (Preb.  H.  G.) 
Robinson  (J.  L.) 
Robinson  (Matthew) 
Rochester  (Bishop  of) 
ROCKSTRO  (W.  S.)     . 
ROGERS(J.  E.  T.)       . 
Romanes  (G.  J.) 
RoscoE  (Sir  H.  E.)  . 
RoscoE  (W.  C.) 
RosEBERY  (Earl  of) . 

ROSENBUSCH  (H.) 
ROSEVEAR  (E.) 
Ross  (P.)  . 
ROSSETTI  (C.  G.)        . 
ROUTLEDGE  (J.) 
R0WE(F.J.)       . 
RUCKER  (Prof.  A.  W.) 

RuMFORD  (Count)     . 

RUSHBROOKE  (W.  G.) 

Russell  (Dean) 
Russell  ;Sir  Charles) 
Russell  (W.  Clark) . 
Russell  (T.)    . 
Rvland  (F.)     . 
Ryle  (Prof.  H.  E.)    . 
St.  Johnston  (A.)  .22, 
Sadler  (H.) 
Saintsbury  (G.) 
Salmon  (Rev.  G.)     . 
Salt(H.  S.)     . 
Sandford  (Bishop) . 
Sandford  (M.  E.)    . 
Sandys  (J.  E.) . 
Sayce(A.  H.)  . 
Scaife(W.  B.). 

SCARTAZZINI  (G.  A.) 
SCHI  lEMANN  (Dr.)  . 
SCHORLEMMER  (C.)  . 
SCHREIBER  (T.). 
SCHUCHHARDT  (C.)  . 
SCHULTZ  (Dr.  G.) 


PAGE 

43 

43 

38 

3 

5 


6 
37.  41 


27 

IS 

16 
6 

41 

29 
6 
6 
5 
3.  34 
7 
8 

17 


9 

2i 

8,  ,6 
34 

8,  19 
3 

26 
3f 
41 
34 

22 

32 
15 

36,    il 

44.  46 

3 

4,  15 

41 


ScOTT  (M.) 

ScoTT  (SirW.). 
SCRATCHLEY  (Sir  Peter) 
Scudder  (S.  H.) 
SEATON(Dr.  E.  C.)  . 
Seeley  (Sir  J.  R.)    . 
Seiler  (Dr.  Carl) 
SELBORNE(EarloO     23. 
Sellers  (E.  J    . 
Service  (I.) 
Sewell(E.  M.) 
Shadwell  (C.  L.)    . 
Shairp  (J.  C.)  . 
Shakespeare  .    16,  18, 
Shann  (G.) 
Sharp  (W.) 
Shaw  (Miss) 
Shelley   . 
Shirley  (W.  N.)      . 
Shore  (L.  E.)  . 
Shorthousk  (J.  H.) 
Shortland  (Admiral) 
Shuckburgh  (E.  S.  ) 
Shufeldt (R.  W. )   . 
SiBSON  (Dr.  F.) 
SiDGwicK  (.Prof.  H.)  30, 

SiME  (J.)    . 

Simpson  (Rev.  W.)  . 
Skeat  (W.W.) 
Skrine  (J.  H.). 
Slade  (J.  H.)   . 
Sleeman  (L.)    . 
Sloman  (Rev.  A.)     . 
Smart  (W. ) 
Smalley  {G.  W. ) 
Smetham  (J.  and  S.) 
Smith  (Adam)  .        .     3 
Smith  (Alexander)  . 
Smith  (C.  B.)  . 
Smith  (Garnett) 
Smith  (Goldwin) 

4.  6,  19.  26,  35, 
Smith  (H.) 
Smith  (J.) 
Smith  (Rev.  T.) 
Smith  (W.G.). 

SOHM(R.). 

Somerville  (Prof.  W.) 

SOUTHEY    . 

Spender  (J.  K.) 
Spenser    . 
Spottiswoode  (W.). 
St.  Asaph  (Bishop  of) 
Stanley  (Dean) 
Stanley  (Hon.  Maude) 
Statham  (R.)  . 
Stebbing  (W.)  . 
Steel  (F.  A.)    . 
Stephen  (C.  E.) 
Stephen  (H.)  . 
Stephen  (Sir  J.  F.) 
Stephen  (J.  K.) 
Stephen  (L.)    . 
Stephens  (J.  B.) 
Stevens  (C.  E.) 
Stevenson  (F.  S.)    . 
Stevenson  (J.  J.)     . 
Stewart  (A.)  . 
Stewart  (Ballour) 
Stokes  (Sir  G.  G.)    . 
Story  (R.  H.)  . 
Stone  (W.H.). 
Strachey  (Sir  E.)    . 
Strachey(J.  .St.  L.) 


'8, 

23 

28 

46 

27 

13 

27, 

38, 

32 

39 

■^ 

38, 

41 

13 

4 

43 

iS 

23 

24 

9, 

3' 

6 

18, 

13 
?4 

41 

3S 

22 

29 

13. 

43 

4- 

27 

33 

35 

10, 

i^ 

37 

6 

9 

44 
36 

6 

26 

6 

.  6 

33 

23 
18 

8,  23 
32 

38 
41 
35 
35 
4 


13.  I 


PAGE 

Strachey  (Gen.  R.).  .  10 
STRANGFORD(Viscountess)  44 
Strettell  (A.) 

Stubbs  (Dean)  .         .  .41 

Stubbs  (Bishop)  .  37 
Sutherland  (A.) 

SVVAINSON  (H.). 

SwETE(Prof.  H.  B.).  .     36 

Swift  (Dean)    .         .  -     14 
Symonds  (J.  A.) 
Symonds  (Mrs.  J.  A.) 

Symons  (A.)      .        .  .18 

Tainsh(E.C.).         .  .     16 

Tait  (."Vrchblshop)     .  4',  42 

Tait  (C.  W.  A.)         .  .     13 
Tait  (Prof.  P.  G.)       31, 
Tanner  (H.)     . 
Tarr(R.  S.)     . 

Tavernier  (J.  B.)    .  .     44 

Taylor  (E.  R.).        .  .       3 

rA.YLOR  (Franklin)    .  .     28 

Taylor  (Isaac).   .     .  2c,  42 

Tavlok  (Sedley)        .  28,  32 

Tegetmeier  (W.  B.)  9 

Temple  (Bishop)       .  42 

Temple  (Sir  R.)  .  4 
Tennant  (Dorothy). 

Tenniel  (Sir  John)  .  .     44 

Tennyson  (Lord)       i6,  i8,  24 

Tennyson  (Frederick)  .     19 

Tennyson  (Lord  H.)  14,46 
Theodoli  (Marchesa) 
Thompson  (D  'A.  \/.) 
Thompson  (E.). 
Thompson  (H.  M.)  . 

Thompson  (S.  P.)      .  .     31 

Thomson  (A.  W.)      .  9 

Thomson  (Sir  C.  W.)  .     46 

Thomson  (Hugh)      .  13,  14 

Thoreau  .        .        .  .26 

Thorne  (Dr.  Thome)  27 

44  1  Thornton  (J.).         .  .      7 

18     Thornton  (W.  T.)    30,  35,  43 


26 
15 

s 

18 
15 

6 

2 

46 

32,  41 

32 

4 
32 
23 
35 


Thorpe  (T.  E.). 
Thring(E.)      . 
ThruppG- F-)- 
Thursfield  (J.  R.)  . 
Todhunter  (I.) 
Torrens(W.M.) 
Tourg^nief  (L  S.)  . 
Tout(T.F.)     . 
Tozer(H.  F.)  . 
Traill  (H.  D.).        .     4 
Trench  (Capt.  F.)    . 
Trench  (Archbishop) 
Trevelyan  (Sir  G.  O.) 
Trevor  (G.  H.) 
Tribe  (A.). 
Tristram  (W.  O.)    . 
Trollope  (A.)  . 
Truman  (J.)     . 
Tucker  (T.  G.) 
TUCKWELL  (W.) 
Tufts  (J.  H.)   . 
Tulloch  (Principal). 
Turner  (C.  Tennyson) 
Turner  (G.)     . 
Turner  (H.H.) 
Turner  (J.  M.W.)  . 
turpin  (g.  s.)  . 
Tylok(E.  B.)    . 
Tyrwhttt(R.  St.  J.) 
Tyrrell  (R.Y.) 


6,  8 

9,  26 

36 

S 

6 

S 

22 

5.  13 
10 

5.  34 
35 
42 
13 
19 

3 
14 

5 
19 
42 
13 


Vaughan  (C.  J.)  36.  37.  38,  42 


52 


INDEX. 


Val  .HAN  (Rev.  D.  J.)i4 

VALOMAN(Rev.  E.T.) 

Va'.  .man- (Rev.  R.). 

Vi;iEv(M.) 

Vf  .•.  (Rev.J.). 

Vf--   IV  (Hon.  WW.) 

Vk      ;At.L(.A.  W.)        . 

■V'k!- ,Ai.L  (Mrs.) 

\'lCKEKMAN  (C.) 

ViTO>!(H)      . 

VlNE.-,(S.  H.)     . 

Vioi  i.i-.t-Lk-1)uc  (E.  E 
Wain  (Louis)    . 
Waldstein  (C.) 
Wahcer  (Prof.  F.  A.) 
Walker  (Ja-s.) 
Wai  km;  (I.otiisa) 
Wallace  (.\.  R.)      .  7, 
Wallace  (Sir  D.  M.) 

WAr.*^OLE(S.)     . 

Wai  ton  (1.)      . 
Ward  (AW.)  .         .  ^, 
Ward(H.M.). 
Wakd(S.). 
Wapd(T.  H.)   . 
WAHn(Mrs.  T.  H.)   . 
Waro(W.)  .  6, 

Wa!  k(W.  K.)  . 
Waters  (C.  A.) 
Waterton  (Charles) 
Watson  (E.)  . 
Wats>s(R.  S.) 
Watson  (W.)  . 
Wav(A.  S.) 
Web3(W.  T.)  . 
Webster  (Mrs.  A.)  . 


PAGE 

,26,43 


30.  41 
■  >5 
16,  43 


7 
10 

45 

3 

33 


»8,  34 

•  35 

•  34 
.   14 

>5.  23 
7 

•  19 

•  «3 
33,  46 

26.  37 
3 

•  33 
'S,  44 

.  6 
.  44 
>9.  »3 
■  43 

18,  19 

19,  4O 


PACB 

Weisbacm  (J.)  .  10 

Welby-Gkegory  (Lady)  .     38 

WELLDON(ReV.J.E.C.)         43 
WeST(M.)  ...       32 

WESTCOTT(Bp.)55,36,37,38,43 
Westermarck  (E.) 
Wetherell  (J.) 
Wheeler  (J.  T.) 
Whewell  (>V'.). 
Whitcomii  (L.  S.) 
White  (A.) 
White  (Gilbert) 
White  (Dr.  W.  Hale 
White  (W.) 
Whitney  (W.  D.) 
Whittier  (J.  G.) 
Whittick  (C.  A.) 
Wickham  (Rev.  E.  C.) 
Wicksteed  (P.  H.) 

WiEDERSHEIM  (R.) 

WiKsEK  (F.  von) 
Wilbraham  (F.  M.) 
WiLKiNs(Prof.A.  S. 
Wilkinson  (S.) 
Wii.i.ev(A.)      . 
Williams  (C.  M.) 
Williams  (C.  T.) 
Williams  (G.  H.) 
Willia.ms(H.). 
Williams  (Monir.KU 
Williams  (S.  E.) 
WiLLINK  (A.)    . 
WiLLOL'GHBY  (P.1.   V.) 

Willoughbv  (F.) 
Wills  (W.G.)  . 


•  29 
.  13 
.  6 
3.  >5 

.  26 

.  39 

■  37 

•  32 
-  9 

19,  36 
.      42 

•  4a 

34>  ^6 
32i  46 

•  .■'4 

•  38 

)    2.   15.  42 

58 

7 
30 
27 


13,  29 
6 
"5 
42 


I' AGE 
•      34 


R.) 


WlUSON(A.  J.). 
Wilson  (Sir  C.) 
Wilson  (Sir  D.) 
Wilson  (Dr.  G.) 
Wilson  (.\rchdeacon 
Wilson  (Marj-)- 

WiNUKLBANU  (W.) 

WiNGATE  (Major  K 
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